Do Russian and American normal adults perform similarly on neuropsychological tests?. Preliminary findings on the relationship between culture and test performance

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-282

  Agranovich, Anna V ^a   Puente, Antonio E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural neuropsychological assessment; Cultural differences; Lurian approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLIND CLOCK TEST; CATEGORY FLUENCY TEST; COLOR TRAILS TEST; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIGIT SPAN FORWARD AND BACKWARD; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RUFF FIGURAL FLUENCY TEST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; UNITED STATES; VERBAL AND VISUAL MEMORY TEST; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 34247104523     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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