Spanish multicenter normative studies (NEURONORMA project): Norms for verbal fluency tests

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 395-411

  Peña Casanova, Jordi ^a,b   Quiñones Úbeda, Sonia ^b   Gramunt Fombuena, Nina ^b   Quintana Aparicio, María ^b   Aguilar, Miquel ^c   Badenes, Dolors ^c   Cerulla, Noemí ^c   Molinuevo, José Luis ^d   Ruiz, Eva ^d   Robles, Alfredo ^e   Barquero, Maria Sagrario ^f   Antúnez, Carmen ^g   Martínez Parra, Carlos ^h   Frank García, Anna ⁱ   Fernández, Manuel ^j   Alfonso, Verónica ^k   Sol, Josep M ^k   Blesa, Rafael ^l  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^j HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

^k European Biometrics Institute   (Spain)

^l HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Age factors; Demography; Educational status; Language tests; Reference values; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70349105983     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acp042     Document Type: Article

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