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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2025 May 9;39(2):75–81. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000668

TABLE 3.

Associations Between Neuropsychological Assessments and Years of Education, Age at Which Individuals Learned English, and Language Dominance Index

Education Age learned English Language dominance index



Measure r P r P r P

MoCA* 0.33 0.04 −0.15 0.36 −0.08 0.65
Craft-I −0.14 0.41 0.05 0.78 0.06 0.71
Craft-D 0.04 0.80 −0.11 0.52 0.13 0.42
Benson-I* −0.10 0.53 0.20 0.22 −0.20 0.23
Benson-D < 0.01 0.99 −0.08 0.62 0.06 0.73
NS-F 0.21 0.22 −0.11 0.53 −0.07 0.67
NS-B 0.20 0.24 −0.24 0.15 −0.10 0.55
MINT 0.24 0.14 −0.03 0.87 0.05 0.75
Fluency F+L 0.20 0.24 0.03 0.85 −0.36 0.03
Animals 0.31 0.05 0.07 0.67 −0.16 0.34
Vegetables 0.30 0.06 −0.03 0.85 0.28 0.08
Trails-A* 0.11 0.54 0.01 0.96 −0.06 0.74
Trails−B* 0.24 0.15 −0.20 0.23 −0.08 0.65
Age* 0.24 0.13 0.41 0.003 −0.25 0.11
Education* NA NA −0.09 0.58 < 0.01 0.97
Age learned Zuni* 0.13 0.41 0.07 0.65 0.17 0.21
Age learned English* −0.09 0.58 NA NA −0.46 0.003
Percentage of time use Zuni* −0.01 0.94 0.70 < 0.001 −0.62 < 0.001
Percentage of time use English* 0.01 0.94 −0.70 < 0.001 0.62 < 0.001
*

Notes: indicates variable is not normally distributed and Spearman correlations were used. Bold indicates significant differences between groups. MoCA indicates Montreal Cognitive Assessment; Craft-I, Craft Story 21 immediate recall; Craft-D, Craft Story 21 delayed recall; Benson-I, Benson complex figure copy; Benson-D, Benson complex figure delayed recall; NS-F, Number span test forward; NS-B, number span test backwards; MINT, multilingual naming test; Fluency F+L, phonemic test F and L words total; Animals, fluency animal list generation, Vegetables, fluency vegetables list generation; Trails-A, trail making test part A; Trails-B, Trail making test part B.