title: Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery--Portuguese version: age and education effects.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To verify age and education effects on communication performance of healthy adults in the Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery, Portuguese version (MAC-PT).
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample comprised 90 healthy adults from Portugal, European Portuguese speakers, divided into nine groups according to educational level (4-9, 10-13, and > 13 years of formal schooling) and age (19-40, 41-64, and 65-80 years). The influence of age and education was assessed by comparing mean scores between groups, using a two-way analysis of variance followed by Bonferroni post hoc tests (p ≤ 0.05).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that participants' performance was influenced by age in pragmatic-inferential, discursive, and prosodic tasks. Education had the greatest influence on the performance in all processes evaluated by the MAC-PT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Age and education seem to influence the communicative performance and should be considered in the assessment of neurological patients.
authors.affiliation: Clínica de Linguagem e Cognição, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mônica de Souza
authors.initials: Mde S
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Karina Carlesso
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Pagliarin
authors.affiliation: Instituição de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mineiro
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Perrine
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ferré
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Joanette
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rochele Paz
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Fonseca
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D054022:Cerebrum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003142:Communication; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011174:Portugal; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult