The effects of practice on the cognitive test performance of neurologically normal individuals assessed at brief test-retest intervals

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 419-428

  Collie, Alexander ^a,b   Maruff, Paul ^b,c   Darby, David G ^a,b   McStephen, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CogState Ltd ^*  (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; CogState; Practice effects; Serial assessment; Test retest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0344405698     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617703930074     Document Type: Review

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