Trail making and cognitive set-shifting.

We tested the hypothesis that Part B of the Trail Making Test (TMT) is a measure of cognitive set-shifting ability in 55 normal subjects with the conventional (written) TMT and a verbal adaptation, the "verbal TMT" (vTMT). The finding of a significant association between Parts B of TMT and vTMT (r = 0,59, p < 0,001), after correcting for age and education, supports the view that Part B of TMT is a valid measure of the ability to alternate between cognitive categories.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

• Publication date

  2000-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1590/S0004-282X2000000500006PMID 11018818
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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