Author:
ARDILA ALFREDO,MORENO SONIA
Abstract
A sample of 20 right-handed Aruaco Indians (12 male,
8 female; age 8–30 years) from the Sierra Nevada
de Santa Marta (Colombia) participated in this study. A
brief neuropsychological test battery (visuoconstructive
and visuoperceptual abilities, memory, ideomotor praxis,
verbal fluency, spatial abilities, concept formation) was
individually administered. In addition, a handedness questionnaire
was included. In some neuropsychological tests performance
was virtually perfect (Recognition of Overlapped Figures
and Ideomotor Praxis Ability test), whereas performance
in other tests was impossible (e.g., Block Design using
a time limit). It was proposed that two types of variables
were significantly affecting performance: (1) educational
level; and (2) cultural relevance. Some tests appeared
significant and meaningful whereas others were meaningless
and even impossible to understand. The appropriateness
of current neuropsychological instruments for cross-cultural
assessment is discussed. (JINS, 2001, 7,
510–515.)
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Neurology (clinical),Clinical Psychology,General Neuroscience
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