Extending Neuropsychological Assessments into the Primary Mental Ability Space Export

@article{citeulike:1663115, abstract = {A battery of 17 neuropsychological tests (including the CERAD battery) and 17 psychometric ability tests were administered to a sample of 499 participants of the Seattle Longitudinal study who had been given the psychometric ability tests seven and 14 years earlier. The neuropsychological tests were projected into a 5-factor psychometric ability space by means of extension analysis. The concurrent regressions of the neuropsychology tests on the psychometric ability tests were then used to estimate neuropsychology test scores from the psychometric ability tests administered in 1984, 1991 and 1998. Neuropsychologists then rated the study participants as either normal, suspect or cognitively impaired in 1998. Changes in estimated test scores were computed over seven and fourteen years. Significant odds ratios between normal and cognitively impaired groups were found for all neuropsychological tests over the proximal period and for most tests over the 14-year period. Similar findings occurred for the odds ratios between the normal and suspect groups for the most proximal 7-year changes.}, author = {Schaie, Warner}, citeulike-article-id = {1663115}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psych/anec/2005/00000012/00000003/art00002}, keywords = {abilities, ability, ability-space, assessment, brain-mapping, brain-models, brain-reading, category-of-abilities, cognitive-architectures, cognitive-neurosicience, educating, hyperefficiency, lattice-of-abilities, neuroscience, potentiality}, month = {September}, pages = {245--277}, posted-at = {2007-09-16 16:42:36}, priority = {2}, title = {Extending Neuropsychological Assessments into the Primary Mental Ability Space}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psych/anec/2005/00000012/00000003/art00002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1663115 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1663115 N2 - A battery of 17 neuropsychological tests (including the CERAD battery) and 17 psychometric ability tests were administered to a sample of 499 participants of the Seattle Longitudinal study who had been given the psychometric ability tests seven and 14 years earlier. The neuropsychological tests were projected into a 5-factor psychometric ability space by means of extension analysis. The concurrent regressions of the neuropsychology tests on the psychometric ability tests were then used to estimate neuropsychology test scores from the psychometric ability tests administered in 1984, 1991 and 1998. Neuropsychologists then rated the study participants as either normal, suspect or cognitively impaired in 1998. Changes in estimated test scores were computed over seven and fourteen years. Significant odds ratios between normal and cognitively impaired groups were found for all neuropsychological tests over the proximal period and for most tests over the 14-year period. Similar findings occurred for the odds ratios between the normal and suspect groups for the most proximal 7-year changes. EP - 277 TI - Extending Neuropsychological Assessments into the Primary Mental Ability Space SP - 245 KW - abilities KW - ability KW - ability-space KW - assessment KW - brain-mapping KW - brain-models KW - brain-reading KW - category-of-abilities KW - cognitive-architectures KW - cognitive-neurosicience KW - educating KW - hyperefficiency KW - lattice-of-abilities KW - neuroscience KW - potentiality AU - Schaie, Warner UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psych/anec/2005/00000012/00000003/art00002 ER -