Instituto Colombiano de Neuropsicologia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Hospital San Juan de Dios, Bogotá, Colombia.
Behav Neurol. 1994;7(2):49-58. doi: 10.3233/BEN-1994-7202.
A general neuropsychological test battery was assembled and individually given to a 98-subject sample, aged 11-12 years old. The battery included some basic and common tests routinely used in the evaluation of language, memory, spatial abilities, concept formation, and praxic abilities. Twenty-five different scores were calculated. A factor analysis with varimax rotation disclosed nine different factors, accounting for about 70% of the variance. Factor I was measured by a Sequential Verbal Memory test and Verbal Fluency subtests ("verbal factor"). Factor II was measured by the Wechsler Memory Scale Visual Memory subtests (immediate and delayed reproduction), and the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (copy and immediate reproduction) ("non-verbal memory and constructional factor"). Factor III was measured by the WMS Logical Memory subtests (immediate and delayed; "verbal memory factor"). Factor IV was associated with fine movements (tapping subtests, right and left hand; "fine movements factor"). Factor V was specially measured by the Information subtest of the WMS and the Boston Naming Test ("verbal knowledge"). Factor VI represented a "praxic ability factor" (ideomotor praxis tests). Delayed Associative Learning subtest measured Factor VII; and Digits measured Factor VIII. Factor IX was a "mental control factor" (Mental Control subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale). The implications of these results to theories relating to the structure of cognitive activity are discussed.
我们收集了一套通用神经心理学测试并对 98 名 11-12 岁的受试者进行了个体测试。该测试组合包含了一些语言、记忆、空间能力、概念形成和动作能力评估中常用的基本测试。共计算了 25 个不同的分数。通过方差最大正交旋转因子分析，揭示了九个不同的因素，约占方差的 70%。因子 I 通过连续言语记忆测试和言语流畅性子测试（“言语因子”）来衡量。因子 II 通过韦氏记忆量表视觉记忆子测试（即时和延迟再现）和 Rey-Osterrieth 复杂图形（复制和即时再现）（“非言语记忆和结构因子”）来衡量。因子 III 通过 WMS 逻辑记忆子测试（即时和延迟；“言语记忆因子”）来衡量。因子 IV 与精细运动（敲击子测试，右手和左手；“精细运动因子”）相关。因子 V 由 WMS 的信息子测试和波士顿命名测试特别衡量（“言语知识”）。因子 VI 代表“动作能力因子”（动作意向测试）。延迟联想学习子测试衡量因子 VII；数字衡量因子 VIII。因子 IX 是“心理控制因子”（韦氏记忆量表的心理控制子测试）。讨论了这些结果对与认知活动结构相关的理论的意义。
