Table 3.
Significant correlations of narrative discourse with neuropsychological and language measures in LBSD (N=29)1
| Narrative comprehension | Narrative expression | |
|---|---|---|
| Within-cluster latency | Search theme maintenance | |
| Comprehension | ||
| Within-cluster latency | −.62** | |
| Executive functioning | ||
| Category fluency (Animals) | −.72** | .67** |
| Trails B time | .70** | −.70** |
| Reverse digit span | −.45* | .46* |
| Letter-guided fluency (FAS) | −.48** | .60** |
| Average Z-score of Trails time and Category fluency |
−.73** | .68** |
| Semantics | ||
| Comprehension: Boston Naming Test |
−.15 | .18 |
| Expression: % open class words | −.23 | −.10 |
| Grammaticality | ||
| Comprehension: Complex sentences |
−.75** (16) | .70**(16) |
| Expression: Composite grammar score |
−.01 | −.03 |
NOTE
1
Significant correlations: * p<0.05; ** p<0.01. Since not all participants were available for testing on all neuropsychological measures, and because of technical limitations in recovering some demographic and clinical features, we provide in parentheses the numbers of participants for which each characteristic was ascertained if fewer than the total number in the group.