Evaluation of the Trail Making Test and interval timing as measures of cognition in healthy adults: Comparisons by age, education, and gender

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 173-181

  Płotek, Włodzimierz ^a   Łyskawa, Wojciech ^b   Kluzik, Anna ^a   Grześkowiak, Małgorzata ^a   Podlewski, Roland ^a   Zaba, Zbigniew ^a   Drobnik, Leon ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Education methods; Frontal lobe; Interval timing; Trail Making Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLOCK DRAWING TEST; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDS; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAIL MAKING TEST;

EID: 84896724081     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.889776     Document Type: Article

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