title: The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT): norms for age, education, and ethnicity.
abstract: The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) is often used to measure attention, concentration, working memory, and speed of information processing. Using a modified 200-item version of the PASAT with presentation rates of 3.0, 2.4, 2.0, and 1.6 items per second, we analyzed demographic influences on test performance in a large sample (N = 566) of healthy North American adults. We found that age, education, and ethnicity were significant predictors, accounting for nearly 23% of the variance in test performance. We discuss these results in comparison to previous normative studies, and present a formula and tables for computing age, education, and ethnicity-adjusted T scores for performance on the PASAT 200.
authors.affiliation: San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Diehr
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Heaton
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention; D002140:California; D003071:Cognition; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*