2001 Articles
Neuropsychological Test Performance: A Study of Non-Hispanic White Elderly*
This study examined within-group differences in neuropsychological test performance between US versus foreign-born English-speaking White elders. Participants included 193 randomly selected English-speaking elderly community residents who self-identi®ed as non-Hispanic White. Participants were classi®ed as US (n 106) or foreign-born (n 87). All participants were independently diagnosed by a physician as nondemented. After controlling for years of education, participants born in the United States obtained signi®cantly higher scores on measures of verbal abstract reasoning, naming, and ¯uency than foreign-born elders. These results suggest that although non-Hispanics White are often treated as a homogeneous group, performance differences exist even within this group. Effects of acculturation level and language use on cognitive styles may help explain these ®ndings.
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- Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
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- https://doi.org/10.1076/jcen.23.5.643.1246
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- Neurology
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- February 11, 2022