A New Approach in Clinical Neuropsychology to the Assessment of Spatial Working Memory: The Block Suppression Test

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-114

  Beblo, Thomas ^a   Macek, Cornelia ^b   Brinkers, Ina ^b   Hartje, Wolfgang ^b   Klaver, Peter ^c  

^a Gilead Hospital   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOCK SUPPRESSION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1642421752     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.26.1.105.23938     Document Type: Article

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