The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test: Normative data for the Arabic-speaking population and analysis of the differential influence of demographic variables

Psychology and Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-61

  Poreh, Amir ^a,b   Sultan, Alya ^a   Levin, Jennifer ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARAB; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 84864479970     PISSN: 19843054     EISSN: 19833288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2012.1.08     Document Type: Article

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