Internal consistency and stability of the CANTAB neuropsychological test battery in children

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 698-709

  Syväoja, Heidi J ^a,b   Tammelin, Tuija H ^a   Ahonen, Timo ^b   Räsänen, Pekka ^c   Tolvanen, Asko ^b   Kankaanpää, Anna ^a   Kantomaa, Marko T ^a,d  

^a LIKES RESEARCH CENTER FOR SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c Niilo Maki Instituutti   (Finland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CANTAB; Children; Internal consistency; Reliability; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMBRIDGE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST AUTOMATED BATTERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; ACHIEVEMENT; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84930756094     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038485     Document Type: Article

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