Verbal comprehension ability in aphasia: Demographic and lexical knowledge effects.

CONCLUSIONS: Indices of internal consistency and test-retest reliability were very good. Education and age effects on performance were significant, with the former being stronger. The potential clinical utility of differential ability indices (contrasting sentence- and word level-auditory comprehension tests) is discussed. PMID: 24188986 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Behavioural Neurology - October 31, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Simos PG, Kasselimis D, Potagas C, Evdokimidis I Tags: Behav Neurol Source Type: research