Level of education and category fluency task among Spanish speaking elders: Number of words, clustering, and switching strategies

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 721-744

  Rosselli, Monica ^a   Tappen, Ruth ^a   Williams, Christine ^a   Salvatierra, Judy ^b   Zoller, Yaron ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI DADE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Culture; Education; Elders; Fluency; Language; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 70449085009     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580902912739     Document Type: Article

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