The development of a Chinese equivalence version of letter-number span test

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 112-121

  Chan, Raymond C K ^a,b   Wang, Ya ^b   Deng, Yongyu ^b,c   Zhang, Yani ^b   Yiao, Xiaoli ^b   Zhang, Cheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHONGKAI UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Letter number span; Multitasking; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LETTER NUMBER SPAN TEST; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECALL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 38849137963     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580601025957     Document Type: Article

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