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Estimation of premorbid intelligence: The Word Accentuation Test - Buenos Aires Version
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Estimation of premorbid intelligence: The Word Accentuation Test - Buenos Aires Version

Debora I BURIN, Ricardo E JORGE, Raul A ARIZAGA and Jane S PAULSEN
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, Vol.22(5), pp.677-685
2000
DOI: 10.1076/1380-3395(200010)22:5;1-9;FT677
PMID: 11094402

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Abstract

We have sought to adapt and validate a NART-like Spanish test, the Word Accentuation Test (WAT: Del Ser, Montalvo, Espinosa, Villapalos, & Bermejo, 1997) to estimate acquired intelligence in local normal older adults. The test requires examinees to read aloud infrequent, irregularly stressed Spanish words, a situation that presumably requires lexical knowledge. Results in a sample of 74 participants show that the revised WAT (i.e., the WAT for Buenos Aires) has good concurrent validity with the WAIS Vocabulary subtest and number of years of formal education, as well as high internal consistency. Performance on this test was dissociated from age, memory, or frontal/executive measures.
Biological and medical sciences Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Medical sciences Techniques and methods Psychopathology. Psychiatry Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems

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