Visuospatial characteristics of an elderly Chinese population: Results from the WAIS-R block design test

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Yin, Shufei ^a,b   Zhu, Xinyi ^a   Huang, Xin ^a,b   Li, Juan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; Normative data; Visuospatial characteristics; WAIS R block design test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOCK DESIGN TEST; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

EID: 84924580613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00017     Document Type: Article

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