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Murray, Catherine; Pattie, Alison; Starr, John M.; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 2012
To test whether cognitive ability predicts survival from age 79 to 89 years data were collected from 543 (230 male) participants who entered the study at a mean age of 79.1 years. Most had taken the Moray House Test of general intelligence (MHT) when aged 11 and 79 years from which, in addition to intelligence measures at these two time points,…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Health Conditions, Older Adults, Memory
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Scott, Kirsten M.; de Wit, Isabella; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 2006
We aimed to design alternative estimates of pre-morbid/prior intelligence to the National Adult Reading Test (NART) and the Spot-the-Word (STW) in order to tap non-vocabulary based knowledge stores. The rationale for the development of the new tests was that more cognitively able individuals acquire and retain more "singular facts" from their…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Articulation (Speech), Adults, Socioeconomic Background