Retrospective validation of WTAR and NART scores as estimators of prior cognitive ability using the lothian birth cohort 1936

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1361-1366

  Dykiert, Dominika ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nart; Premorbid cognitive ability; Wtar

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; NATIONAL ADULT READING TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WECHSLER TEST OF ADULT READING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APTITUDE; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCOTLAND; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APTITUDE; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCOTLAND; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84890050521     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033623     Document Type: Article

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