Flemish Normative Data for the Buschke Selective Reminding Test

H Thielen; G Verleysen; S Huybrechts; C Lafosse; C R Gillebert

doi:10.5334/pb.486

Flemish Normative Data for the Buschke Selective Reminding Test

Psychol Belg. 2019 Feb 11;59(1):58-77. doi: 10.5334/pb.486.

Authors

H Thielen¹, G Verleysen², S Huybrechts³, C Lafosse^{3

4

5}, C R Gillebert¹

Affiliations

¹ Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, Leuven, BE.
² Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ugent, Gent, BE.
³ Department Clinical Neuropsychology, RevArte Rehabilitation Hospital, Edegem, BE.
⁴ Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, BE.
⁵ Department of Applied Psychology, Thomas More University College, BE.

PMID: 31328011
PMCID: PMC6625541
DOI: 10.5334/pb.486

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide normative data for a Flemish version of the Buschke Selective Reminding Test (SRT). The SRT allows for the simultaneous analysis of several components of verbal memory, such as short and long term retrieval. The Flemish SRT was administered to 3257 neurologically healthy adults (1627 men and 1630 women, age range = 18-94 years). Effects of age, sex and education on SRT performance were assessed. Results indicate that SRT performance decreased with age and that this decline accelerated in men compared to women. Furthermore, an effect of education was found favoring participants who completed a higher education. Normative data quantified through percentile ranks and stratified by age, sex and education level are provided.

Keywords: Flemish normative data; age-associated memory impairment; selective reminding; verbal memory.

Associated data

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Grants and funding

We gratefully acknowledge the first year bachelor students Applied Psychology at the Thomas More University College in Antwerp who assisted in the data acquisition. The work was supported by Internal Funds KU Leuven (STG/16/020).