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Calculation and number processing: Neuropsychological assessment and daily life difficulties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2009

GÉrard Deloche ,
Georges Dellatolas ,
Josep Vendrell  and
Catherine Bergego
GÉrard Deloche
Affiliation:
U.F.R. des Sciences du Comportement et de I‘Environnement, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Georges Dellatolas
Affiliation:
INSERM U 169, 94000 Villejuif, France
Josep Vendrell
Affiliation:
Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 80000 Barcelona, Spain
Catherine Bergego
Affiliation:
La Salpètriaère, 75013 Paris, France
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Abstract

One hundred unselected brain-damaged outpatients received a standardized battery of numerical tests (EC301) and, independently, a questionnaire on numerical activities in daily life (ADL). Comparisons between the two types of measurement were drawn from the scorings for different functional components of the calculation and number processing system. Results indicated high ranking correlations between the two instruments. The EC301 battery generally proved more powerful than the questionnaire in detecting the presence of mild-todiscrete impairments, but some aspects of numerical difficulties in nonaphasic patients were scored higher on the ADL questionnaire. (JINS, 1996, 2, 177–180.)

Keywords

CalculationAssessmentHandicapEcological Value
Type
Rapid Communication
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , March 1996 , pp. 177 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 1996

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