Allamanno N, Della Sala S, Laiacona M, Pasetti C, Spinnler H
Ital J Neurol Sci. 1987 Apr;8(2):111-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02337583.
A non-verbal problem solving task, viz. a simplified version of Shallice's London Towers Test, was given to 131 normal subjects to obtain normative data relating to age, education and sex. The test was built up in its easiest possible feature in order to be administrable also to demented patients, therefore possibly becoming part of the neuropsychological diagnostic procedures of the demential syndromes. Although this version of the test proved to be very easy and therefore likely to yield a statistically treatable wide distribution of scores in demented patients, the age-related decline of performance in normals was apparent. Education and sex showed no significant influence on the test-performance. With correction of the raw scores for age and with knowledge of the distribution of scores in the normal population, this test is now ready to assess the normality of the scores of a new subject according to his age, giving information on this otherwise still uncovered sector of cognitive abilities.
我们让131名正常受试者完成了一项非语言问题解决任务，即简化版的沙利思伦敦塔测试，以获取与年龄、教育程度和性别相关的常模数据。该测试在设计时尽可能简化，以便也能用于痴呆患者，因此有可能成为痴呆综合征神经心理学诊断程序的一部分。尽管事实证明这个测试版本非常简单，很可能在痴呆患者中产生统计学上可处理的广泛分数分布，但正常受试者的表现随年龄下降是明显的。教育程度和性别对测试表现没有显著影响。通过对原始分数进行年龄校正，并了解正常人群中的分数分布，现在这个测试可以根据年龄评估新受试者分数的正常性，为这个认知能力中尚未被揭示的领域提供信息。
