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. 2017 Sep;104:144–156. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.009

Table 2.

Performance of patient groups on auditory tasks versus healthy controls.

Test bvFTD SD
CONTROL TASKS
Perceptual similarity 0.32 (0.19–0.54) 0.65 (0.36–1.17)
Auditory scene analysis 0.11 (0.05–0.29) 0.10 (0.04–0.26)
Sound identification 0.03 (0.008–0.12) 0.04 (0.01–0.19)
AUDITORY SCENE CONGRUITY
Semantic
 ScEc 0.35 (0.15–0.81) 0.17 (0.06–0.50)
 ScEi 0.44 (0.19–1.03) 0.37 (0.14–0.98)
 SiEc 0.51 (0.21–1.19) 0.45 (0.18–1.14)
 SiEi 0.10 (0.02–0.52) 0.19 (0.03–1.08)
 All conditions 0.35 (0.19–0.67) 0.30 (0.17–0.53)
Emotional
 ScEc 0.58 (0.26–1.31) 0.76.(0.37–1.55)
 ScEi 0.18 (0.06–0.51) 0.37 (0.16–0.85)
 SiEc 0.52 (0.20–1.35) 0.29 (0.11–0.78)
 SiEi 0.21 (0.07–0.68) 0.11 (0.03–0.39)
 All conditions 0.41 (0.22–0.75) 0.27 (0.14–0.52)

The Table shows performance of patient groups as odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) referenced to healthy control group performance on the control tasks and auditory scene semantic and emotional congruity tasks; analyses of congruity test performance for each participant were based on scene stimuli containing sounds that were both individually identified correctly by that participant. Odds ratios with confidence intervals overlapping 1 indicate performance not significantly different from healthy controls; bold denotes significantly different from healthy controls (p < 0.05). ScEc, semantically congruous - emotionally congruous; ScEi, semantically congruous - emotionally incongruous; SiEc, semantically incongruous - emotionally congruous; SiEi, semantically incongruous - emotionally incongruous. bvFTD, patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia; SD, patients with semantic dementia. Raw data are summarised for all tests and participant groups in Table S3 in Supplementary Material on-line.