Performances on Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test and Rey Complex Figure Test in a healthy, elderly Danish sample - reference data and validity issues

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-31

  Vogel, Asmus ^a   Stokholm, Jette ^a   Jørgensen, Kasper ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aging; Healthy subjects; Memory; Normative data; Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test; Rey Complex Figure Test; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84855776644     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00909.x     Document Type: Article

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