title: [The Brumory test, an incidental long-term memory task designed for foreign, non-French-speaking people with low educational level].
abstract: Cognitive assessment among foreign patients is a growing need for several reasons: foreign patients have a different culture, they have an insufficient command of the language of the consulting center, and the available cognitive tools are largely unsuitable. For these reasons, we developed a non-verbal test of long-term memory called the Brumory test. This test is based on incident encoding of 48 colored images followed by retrieval by recognition. We compared the performance of indigenous participants with that of immigrant participants (mainly from Morocco). Immigrant participants did not speak French properly and had a low educational level. The results indicate no significant difference in memory performance between the two groups of participants. Moreover, the instructions were easily understood by immigrant participants, despite the fact they do not master French. We conclude that the Brumory test is an appropriate test to assess memory among foreign non-French-speaking patients people with low educational level.
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherches en neuropsychologie et imagerie fonctionnelle (UR2NF), université libre de Bruxelles, 50, avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique; Service de revalidation neurologique, CHU Brugmann Horta, 4, place VanGehuchten, 1020 Bruxelles, Belgique. Electronic address: vvderasp@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vanderaspoilden
authors.affiliation: Service de gériatrie, CHU Brugmann Brien, 36, rue du Foyer Schaerbeekois, 1030 Bruxelles, Belgique.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nury
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherches en neuropsychologie et imagerie fonctionnelle (UR2NF), université libre de Bruxelles, 50, avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frisque
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherches en neuropsychologie et imagerie fonctionnelle (UR2NF), université libre de Bruxelles, 50, avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Peigneux
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D004522:Educational Status; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D057567:Memory, Long-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D009018:Morocco; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: Comparaison interculturelle; Cross-cultural comparison; Memory; Mémoire; Neuropsychologie; Neuropsychology