Separate Digits tests: A brief history, a literature review, and a reexamination of the factor structure of the test of memory and learning (TOMAL)

Neuropsychology Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 151-171

  Ramsay, Michael C ^a   Reynolds, Cecil R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

digit span; factor analysis; learning and memory; neuropsychological assessment

Indexed keywords

CONSCIOUSNESS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0029552357     PISSN: 10407308     EISSN: 15736660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02214760     Document Type: Article

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