Performance on the Hayling and Brixton tests in older adults: Norms and correlates

The individualized nature of the aging process underlines the need to have neuropsychological tests that are sensitive enough to distinguish normal changes associated with aging from those that are pathological. However, these measures are only useful if adequate normative data are available. Normat...

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Published in:Archives of clinical neuropsychology 2006-02, Vol.21 (2), p.141-149
Main Authors: Bielak, Allison A.M., Mansueti, Laura, Strauss, Esther, Dixon, Roger A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition Disorders - diagnosis
Cognition Disorders - epidemiology
Cognition. Intelligence
Executive function
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Intellectual and cognitive abilities
Male
Methodology. Experimentation
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Normative data
Older adults
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics. Statistics. Methodology
Reference Values
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:The individualized nature of the aging process underlines the need to have neuropsychological tests that are sensitive enough to distinguish normal changes associated with aging from those that are pathological. However, these measures are only useful if adequate normative data are available. Normative data are presented for two new executive functioning tasks, the Hayling and Brixton tests, which were administered as part of a neuropsychological battery to 457 typically aging older adults (53–90 years). Advancing age was associated with poorer performance on both the Hayling and Brixton tests. Results showed that fluid intelligence accounts for some but not all of the age-related variance on these tasks.
ISSN:0887-6177
1873-5843
DOI:10.1016/j.acn.2005.08.006