title: Fund of Information is More Strongly Associated with Neuropsychological Functioning Than Education in Older Spanish Adults.
abstract: Educational influence on cognitive performance has been extensively agreed in Neuropsychology. Nonetheless, recent studies highlighted the need of better measurements to assess benefit from the schooling experience in order to further understand schooling influence on cognition. The WAIS-III Information subtest is proposed here to measure this influence at old age. Ninety-five older adults were divided according to their educational attainment and their Information subtest score, and completed extensive neuropsychological assessment. Performance on the Information subtest had a significant effect on all same cognitive functions as educational attainment, but also on additional domains. Moreover, cognitive performance on several tasks can be classified in three levels as a function of Information score. The WAIS-III Information subtest could be of special interest as a measurement of the benefit from educational experience not only to study cognition in Spanish older populations but also heterogeneous samples in terms of educational experiences and environments.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Educación, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago 8370076, Chile rut.correia@mail.udp.cl.
authors.forename: Rut
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Correia
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife 38205, Spain.
authors.forename: Antonieta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nieto
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: Centro Geriatros de Ribeira, Santiago de Compostela 15960, Spain.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sabucedo
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife 38205, Spain.
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barroso
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D004522:Educational Status; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013030:Spain; D014888:Wechsler Scales
keywords: Assessment; Cross-cultural/minority; Elderly/geriatrics/aging; Norms/normative studies