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Exploring the Semantic Structure of WMS-IV Verbal Paired Associates using the Hub-and-Spoke Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2021

Rachel T. Furey Open the ORCID record for Rachel T. Furey [Opens in a new window] ,
Stephen C. Bowden ,
Leonie C. Simpson ,
Catherine E. Meade ,
Brooke M. Davis  and
Wendyl J. D’Souza
Rachel T. Furey*
Affiliation:
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Stephen C. Bowden
Affiliation:
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Department of Clinical Neurosciences, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Leonie C. Simpson
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Catherine E. Meade
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Brooke M. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Wendyl J. D’Souza
Affiliation:
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
*
*Correspondence and reprint requests to: Rachel T. Furey, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC3010, Australia. E-mail: rachel.furey@unimelb.edu.au
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Abstract

Objectives:

This study aimed to identify a well-fitting and theoretically justified item-level latent factor structure for the Wechsler Memory Scales (WMS)-IV verbal paired associates (VerbalPA) subtest to facilitate the ease and accuracy of score interpretations for patients with lateralized temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).

Methods:

Archival data were used from 250 heterogeneous neurosciences patients who were administered the WMS-IV as part of a standard neuropsychological assessment. Three theoretically motivated models for the latent structure of VerbalPA were tested using confirmatory factor analysis. The first model, based on cognitive principles of semantic processing from hub-and-spoke theory, tested whether performance is related to specific semantic features of target words. The second, motivated by the Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) model of cognitive abilities, investigated whether the associative properties of items influence performance. A third, Hybrid model tested whether performance is related to both semantic and associative properties of items. The best-fitting model was tested for diagnostic group effects contrasting the heterogeneous neuroscience patients with subsets of left and right TLE (n = 51, n = 26, respectively) patients.

Results:

The Hybrid model was found to have the best fit. Patients with left TLE scored significantly less well than the heterogeneous neurosciences sample on selected semantic factor scores, although the effect size was small.

Conclusions:

Future editions of the WMS may consider implementing a semantic scoring structure for the VerbalPA to facilitate test score interpretation. Additionally, these results suggest that principles of hub-and-spoke theory may be integrated into CHC cognitive ability taxonomy.

Keywords

EpilepsyTemporal lobeNeuropsychological testsCattell–Horn–Carroll modelSemantic processingFactor analysisStatisticalMemoryEpisodic
Type
Regular Research
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , May 2022 , pp. 494 - 502
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Copyright © INS. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2021

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