Benton visual retention test performance in normal adults and acute stroke patients: Demographic considerations, discriminant validity, and test-retest reliability

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 962-977

  Messinis, Lambros ^a   Lyros, Epameinondas ^a   Georgiou, Vassilis ^a   Papathanasopoulos, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

BVRT; Normative data; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENTON VISUAL RETENTION TEST PERFORMANCE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949151909     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040902740691     Document Type: Article

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