Effect of Age on Performance of the Trail Making Test
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 36 (3) , 691-694
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1973.36.3.691
Abstract
This study used 197 brain-damaged and 244 control Ss. Performance correlated significantly with IQ but was independent of age. In contrast to other reports in the literature, the results indicate that Reitan's (1958) cut-off scores work equally for older and younger Ss. It was demonstrated that these cut-off scores did not result in an increasing number of either false negatives or false positives when Ss were considered in 5-yr. age intervals from 15 to 65 yr. of age.Keywords
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