Demographically corrected norms for the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-revised and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-revised in monolingual Spanish speakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-353

  Cherner, M ^a   Suarez, P ^a   Lazzaretto, D ^a   Fortuny, L Artiola i ^b   Mindt, Monica Rivera ^c   Dawes, S ^a   Marcotte, Thomas ^a   Grant, I ^a,d   Heaton, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fordham University ^*

^c FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural assessment; Ethnic differences; Hispanic; Learning; Memory; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRIEF VISUOSPATIAL MEMORY TEST; CALCULATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOPKINS VERBAL LEARNING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEXICO; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247155234     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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