The utility of the spatial span in a clinical geriatric population

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-63

  Wiechmann, April ^a   Hall, James R ^a   O'Bryant, Sid E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Spatial span; Visuospatial processes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650528499     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2010.510556     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Baddeley, A. (1991). The episodic buffer: A new component of working memory? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 417-423.
2. Bo, J., Borza, V., & Seidler, R (2009). Age-related declines in visuospatial working memory correlate with deficits in explicit motor sequence learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 102, 2744-2754.
3. Bor, D., Duncan, J., Lee, A. C. H., Parr, A., & Owen, A. M. (2006). Frontal lobe involvement in spatial span: Converging studies of normal and impaired function. Neuropsycholiga, 44, 229-237.
4. Brennan, M., Welsh, M., & Fisher, D. (1997). Aging and executive function skills: An examination of a community dwelling older adult populations. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 84, 1187-1197.
5. Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2003). Visuo-spatial working memory and individual differences. New York, USA: Psychology Press.
6. Crowell, T. A., Luis, C. A., Vanderploeg, R. D., Schinka, J. A., & Mullen, M. (2002). Memory patterns and executive functioning in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, (9)4, 288-297.
7. Curtiss, G., Vanderploeg, R. D., Spencer, J., & Salazar, A. M. (2001). Patterns of verbal learning and memory in traumatic brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7(5), 574-585.
8. Dobbs, B. M., Dobbs, A. R., & Kiss, I. (2001). Working memory deficits associated with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7(3), 285-293.
9. Fisk, A., Rogers, W., Cooper, B., & Gilbert, D. (1996). Automatic category search and its transfer: Aging, type of search, and level of learning. Journal of Gerontology, 52(2), 91-102.
10. McKhann, G., Drachman, D., Folstein, M., Katzman, R., Price, D., & Stadlan, E. (1984). Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease; Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA work group under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's disease. Neurology, 34, 939-944.
11. Money, E. A., Kirk, R. C., & McNaughton, N. (1992). Alzheimer's dementia produces a loss of discrimination but no increase in rate of memory decay in delayed matching to sample. Neuropsychologia, 30(2), 133-143.
12. Morris, R. G. (1994). Working memory in Alzheimer-type dementia. Neuropsychology, 8, 544-554.
13. Myerson, E., Emery, L., White, D., & Hale, S. (2003). Effects of age, domain, and processing demands on memory span: Evidence for differential decline. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, 10, 20-27.
14. Paul, R., Moser, D., Cohen, R., Browndyke, J., Zawacki, T., & Gordon, N.(2001). Dementia severity and pattern of cognitive performance in vascular dementia. Applied Neuropsychology, 8(4), 211-217.
15. Pearson, D. G. (2001). Imagery and the visuospatial sketchpad. In J. Andrade (Ed.), Working memory in perspective (pp. 33-59). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
16. Reisberg, B., Ferris, S. H., de Leon, M. J., & Crook, T. (1982). The global deterioration scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 139(9), 1136-1139.
17. Robbins, T., James, M., Owen, A., Sahakian, B., Lawrence, A., McInnes, L., et al. (1998). A study of performance on tests form the CANTAB battery sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction in a large sample of normal volunteers: Implications for theories of executive functioning and cognitive aging. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 474-490.
18. Roman, G. C., Tatemichi, T., Erkinjuntti, T., Cummings, J. L., Masdeu, J. C., Garcia, J., et al. (1993). Vascular dementia: Diagnostic criteria for research studies. Report of the NINDSAIREN International Workshop. Neurology, 43(2), 250-260.
19. Sahakian, B. J., Morris, R. G., Evenden, J. L., Heald, A., Leuv, R. Philpot, M., et al. (1988). A comparative study of visuospatial memory and learning in Alzheimer-type dementia and Parkinson's disease. Brain, 111(3), 695-718.
20. Thompson, J. M., Hamilton, C. J., Gray, J. M., Quinn, J. G., Mackin, P., Young, A. H., et al. (2006). Executive and visuospatial sketchpad resources in euthymic bipolar disorder: Implications for visuospatial working memory architecture. Memory, 14(4), 437-451.
21. Van der Linden (1998). The relationships between working memory and long-term memory. Comptes Rendus de l Acadamie des Sciences, Serie III, Sciences de la vie (Paris), 321(2-3), 175-177.
22. Vogel, E. K., Woodman, G. F., & Luck, S. J. (2006). Pushing around the locus of selection: Evidence for the flexible-selection hypothesis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(12), 1907-1922.