Publications by authors named "Oula Hatahet"
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to create effective behavioral tests to understand cognitive aging, focusing on individual differences in cognition.
- It found that elderly females outperformed males in verbal episodic memory and that correlations in test scores varied by age group.
- The research also showed that while a three-factor model worked for both age groups, differences in how tasks loaded on these factors indicate that cognitive tests may not reflect the same underlying processes across ages.
Cognitive decline assessment in speakers of understudied languages.
Alzheimers Dement (N Y)
November 2023
Unlabelled: Projected trends in population aging have forecasted a massive increase in the number of people with dementia, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Cognitive decline is a significant marker for dementia, typically assessed with standardized neuropsychological tools that have been validated in some well-researched languages such as English. However, with the existing language diversity, current tools cannot cater to speakers of understudied languages, putting these populations at a disadvantage when it comes to access to early and accurate diagnosis of dementia.
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