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Published in final edited form as: Biling (Camb Engl). 2023 Mar 9;27(2):274–286. doi: 10.1017/s1366728923000226

Table 3.

Neuropsychological battery results for monolingual/bilingual speakers by clinical variant

bvFTD nfvPPA svPPA

Monolingual (N = 101) Bilingual (N = 25) p N (mono/bi) Monolingual (N = 55) Bilingual (N = 22) p N (mono/bi) Monolingual (N =66) Bilingual (N = 30) p N (mono/bi)
Age at Testing, mean (SD), y 61.5 (10.0) 65.6 (8.2) 0.038 - 68.3 (7.5) 67.5 (7.8) 0.693 - 63.3 (6.0) 65.7 (7.4) 0.137 -
MMSE (30) 23.0 (7.2) 23.9 (4.1) 0.689 98/23 25.1 (4.7) 25.3 (4.9) 0.889 54/21 23.1 (6.3) 21.7. (7.5) 0.230 66/29
GDS (30) 6.9 (5.9) 7.2 (7.6) 0.544 78/19 8.7 (6.9) 6.9 (5.2) 0.377 46/18 8.4 (6.2) 10.5 (8.2) 0.143 52/25
Episodic Memory
CVLT Trials 1–4 (36) 19.2 (8.1) 16.8 (6.7) 0.131 85/23 21.7 (6.2) 21.1 (6.7) 0.752 45/20 15.8 (7.3) 16.2 (6.7) 0.912 57/25
CVLT 10 min (9) 3.3 (2.8) 2.5 (2.3) 0.193 83/23 5.6 (2.3) 5.2 (2.8) 0.812 45/20 1.9 (2.4) 1.6 (2.5) 0.367 57/25
Rey recall (17) 7.0 (4.6) 5.4 (4.0) 0.137 95/24 10.0 (3.6) 9.9 (3.0) 0.854 53/21 6.3 (4.5) 6.9 (4.5) 0.499 62/30
Speech and Language
Sentence repetition (5) 4.3 (1.0) 3.5 (1.5) 0.003 86/20 2.7 (1.5) 3.0 (1.9) 0.919 46/20 3.6 (1.4) 3.5 (1.4) 0.686 54/27
Animal fluency 10.9 (6.8) 8.6 (4.3) 0.112 90/22 11.6 (7.0) 10.2 (6.0) 0.287 51/21 7.7 (4.6) 10.5 (8.2) 0.082 62/26
BNT (15) 12.4 (3.9) 9.3 (3.7) <.001 91/23 12.3 (2.9) 11.7 (3.6) 0.292 55/21 4.7 (3.7) 5.3 (4.4) 0.919 62/28
Sentence comprehension (5) 3.8 (1.5) 3.8 (1.1) 0.646 84/20 3.9 (1.1) 4.3 (1.0) 0.223 46/20 4.5 (1.0) 4.0 (1.2) 0.049 52/27
Verbal agility (6) 5.0 (1.6) 5.1 (1.3) 0.695 80/20 2.5 (1.5) 2.9 (1.6) 0.716 44/20 5.1 (1.3) 5.2 (0.9) 0.873 50/27
PPVT (16) 13.8 (3.1) 11.8 (3.3) 0.004 81/17 14.4 (1.8) 14.1 (2.6) 0.396 48/20 8.2 (3.9) 9.1 (4.6) 0.730 51/24
Irregular word reading (6) 5.6 (1.2) 5.0 (1.8) 0.012 83/20 5.5 (0.7) 5.1 (1.5) 0.115 43/19 4.5 (1.4) 4.6 (1.3) 0.796 50/26
Visuospatial
VOSP (10) 8.3 (1.9) 7.6 (1.7) 0.055 84/22 8.7 (1.5) 7.8 (2.3) 0.041 52/19 9.0 (1.7) 8.8 (1.6) 0.763 55/29
Rey copy (17) 13.9 (3.0) 14.8 (1.5) 0.231 95/24 14.4 (2.3) 14.1 (2.4) 0.486 54/20 15.3 (1.5) 15.5 (0.9) 0.741 64/30
Calculations (5) 3.7 (1.4) 4.0 (1.1) 0.433 95/23 4.1 (1.3) 4.0 (1.0) 0.502 55/21 4.2 (1.3) 4.4 (0.6) 0.672 65/28
Frontal/Executive
Digits Forward 5.8 (1.5) 5.4 (1.0) 0.219 73/18 5.1 (1.4) 5.2 (1.5) 0.928 39/19 6.2 (1.5) 6.6 (1.9) 0.656 38/23
Digits Backward 3.6 (1.5) 3.8 (1.3) 0.662 73/24 3.2 (1.4) 3.7 (1.2) 0.181 51/21 4.8 (1.5) 5.0 (1.5) 0.726 63/27
D words 7.3 (4.7) 7.2 (4.7) 0.481 88/22 6.0 (4.2) 5.0 (2.8) 0.221 51/21 7.4 (4.5) 7.5 (4.9) 0.816 62/27
Trails (lines/sec) 0.3 (0.2) 0.2 (0.2) 0.211 78/22 0.2 (0.2) 0.3 (0.2) 0.518 50/20 0.3 (0.2) 0.4 (0.3) 0.279 57/25
Design Fluency 5.3 (3.9) 5.2 (3.2) 0.572 85/23 5.6 (2.9) 7.2 (3.8) 0.105 52/21 7.3 (3.5) 7.5 (3.6) 0.889 52/26
Stroop color naming 61.2 (22.0) 55.3 (20.3) 0.265 69/17 42.8 (16.9) 39.8 (21.1) 0.579 41/16 68.2 (19.2) 62.8 (28.3) 0.171 37/23
Stroop inhibition 31.9 (18.4) 25.6 (15.6) 0.175 75/19 24.8 (13.5) 23.1 (12.3) 0.496 44/16 37.1 (13.8) 35.8 (20.5) 0.605 50/24
Abstraction (6) 1.9 (1.4) 2.3 (1.8) 0.658 61/11 2.9 (1.6) 3.1 (1.6) 0.971 37/13 1.9 (1.3) 1.9 (1.8) 0.652 44/15

Abbreviations: BNT = Boston Naming Test, CVLT = California Verbal Learning Test, GDS = Geriatric Depression Scale, MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination, PPVT = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, VOSP = Visual Object and Space Perception battery, mono = monolingual, bi = bilingual.

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Note. Results derived from ANCOVAs (covariates = age and education). Red denotes significance with Bonferroni correction applied within each cognitive domain. These measures are derived from a neuropsychological battery described further in Kramer, et al..35