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. 2016 Nov 1;55(1):183–197. doi: 10.3233/JAD-160682

Table 2.

Cognitive profiles of the three PPA variants

sv-PPA n = 11 nfv-PPA n = 19 lv-PPA n = 17 Statistics Post-hoc
Token test (cut-off = 26.25) 24.39±6.42 21.02±8.91 23.35±5.66 H = 0.93 n.s.
Phonemic fluency (cut-off = 16) 11.73±10.97 12.67±10.4 15.47±8.11 H = 1.35 n.s.
Semantic fluency (cut-off = 24) 12.16±10.13 19.87±12.57 20.32±10.74 H = 3.89 n.s. sv-PPA<lv-PPA*
AAT repetition global score (cut-off = 125/150) 132.50±8.7 124.06±27.01 123.80±15.71 H = 0.89 n.s.
CAGI naming (cut-off = 46/48) 16.44±13.27 34.68±13.32 33.79±11.29 H = 9.98** sv-PPA<nfv-PPA **
sv-PPA<lv-PPA **
CAGI word-picture matching (cut-off = 46/48) 38.44±10.16 47.10±2.19 47.74±0.56 H = 12.9*** sv-PPA<nfv-PPA **
sv-PPA<lv-PPA **
Digit Span (cut-off = 3.5) 5.26±1.09 4.37±1.54 4.15±0.66 H = 7.18* lv-PPA<sv-PPA **
Corsi Span (cut-off = 3.5) 4.34±0.64 3.67±1.02 4.12±1.32 H = 3.3 n.s.
RAVLT immediate recall (cut-off = 28.5) 21.11±7.44 24.57±9.6 23.67±7.28 H = 1.43 n.s.
RAVLT delayed recall (cut-off = 4.68) 2.57±2.71 4.8±2.68 2.87±3.74 H = 3.06 n.s.
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure recall (cut-off = 9.46) 15.10±7.43 12.66±6.31 10.35±4.29 H = 4.52 n.s.
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure copy (cut-off = 28.87) 29.90±4.65 24.03±8.76 26.59±8.05 H = 3.12 n.s.
Attentive Matrices (cut-off = 30) 43.65±8.17 28.90±10.72 34.02±9.94 H = 11.97*** nfv-PPA<sv-PPA ***
lv-PPA<sv-PPA**
Raven Matrices (cut-off = 17.5) 27.55±7.18 22.38±6.32 25.33±5.42 H = 4.01 n.s.

sv-PPA, semantic variant of PPA; nfv-PPA, non fluent variant of PPA; lv-PPA, logopenic variant of PPA; *p <0.05; **p < 0.01; **p < 0.005. Cognitive performances under cut-off are shown in bold.