Communication Sciences and Disorders, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, USA.
J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2010 May;16(3):537-45. doi: 10.1017/S1355617710000160. Epub 2010 Mar 1.
The Common Objects Memory Test (COMT) was developed to assess age-related memory impairments in individuals with a range of educational, language and cultural backgrounds. The COMT is a list-learning protocol that uses photographs of common objects to bypass difficulties posed by written words for individuals who are illiterate or have limited education. Preliminary data are presented for 336 healthy adults and 90 patients with dementia. Their age ranged from 54 to 99 years, education ranged from 0 to 22 years, and they were from five culturally and linguistically distinct populations: Caucasian and African-American English speakers, and native Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese speakers. Performance on the COMT was influenced by age, but little influenced by education, and un-influenced by gender or ethnic background. Among 11 neuropsychological tests, the recall scores from the COMT best distinguished healthy individuals from patients with dementia, underscoring its clinical utility for ethnically diverse populations.
《常见物体记忆测验》（COMT）旨在评估具有不同教育、语言和文化背景的个体的与年龄相关的记忆障碍。COMT 是一种使用常见物体照片的列表学习协议，可绕过不识字或受教育程度有限的个体在读写方面的困难。初步数据涉及 336 名健康成年人和 90 名痴呆症患者。他们的年龄在 54 至 99 岁之间，受教育程度在 0 至 22 年之间，他们来自五个文化和语言截然不同的群体：白人和非裔美国人英语使用者，以及母语为中文、西班牙语和越南语的使用者。COMT 的表现受年龄影响，但受教育程度影响较小，不受性别或族裔背景影响。在 11 项神经心理学测试中，COMT 的回忆得分最能区分健康个体和痴呆症患者，突出了其在不同种族人群中的临床应用价值。
