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Original Articles

Sex differences on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test–Revised in the elderly: Normative data in 172 participants

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Pages 561-567 | Received 04 Apr 2006, Accepted 14 Jun 2006, Published online: 12 Jun 2007

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