Language switching and speaking a nondominant language challenge executive control: Preliminary data for novel behavioral markers of Alzheimer’s risk in Spanish–English bilinguals.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 8, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(4), May 2024, 322-336; doi:10.1037/neu0000943Objective: The present study explored psycholinguistic analysis of spoken responses produced in a structured interview and cued linguistic and nonlinguistic task switching as possible novel markers...

Cardiovascular health and rate of cognitive decline in preclinical dementia: A 12-year population-based study.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 8, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(3), Mar 2024, 211-222; doi:10.1037/neu0000925Objective: We investigated whether vascular risk factors (VRFs), assessed with Life’s Simple 7 (LS7), are associated with the rate of cognitive decline in the years preceding a dementia diagnosis....

Vulnerability to semantic and phonological interference in normal aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(5), Jul 2024, 416-429; doi:10.1037/neu0000945Objective: To determine whether the increased vulnerability to semantic interference previously observed in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is specifically associated with semantic material...

The relationship between working memory and anxiety in individuals with early treated phenylketonuria (PKU).

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(4), May 2024, 368-378; doi:10.1037/neu0000942Objective: Although early diagnosis and treatment prevent the severe impairments associated with untreated phenylketonuria (PKU), individuals with early treated PKU (ETPKU) nonetheless experience...

Effect of multiple sclerosis and aging on prospective memory using the ecological test of prospective memory.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(4), May 2024, 347-356; doi:10.1037/neu0000946Objective: Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember to produce an action at a specific moment in the future signaled by the occurrence of a specific event (event-based [EB] condition), a...

Potential cognitive risks of generative transformer-based AI chatbots on higher order executive functions.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(4), May 2024, 293-308; doi:10.1037/neu0000948Background: Chat generative retrained transformer (ChatGPT) represents a groundbreaking advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI-chatbot) technology, utilizing transformer algorithms to enhance...