Normative Comparisons for the Controlled Oral Word Association Test Following Acute Traumatic Brain Injury

• Published in: Clinical neuropsychologist Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 437 - 441
• Main Authors: Iverson, Grant L., Franzen, Michael D., Lovell, Mark R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.1999
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Adult; Brain Injuries - diagnosis; Brain Injuries - diagnostic imaging; Brain Injuries - psychology; Female; Glasgow Coma Scale; Humans; Male; Psychometrics; Reference Values; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Trauma Severity Indices; Word Association Tests - standards

The Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT) is widely used in clinical neuropsychology as a measure of verbal fluency. It is important for psychologists to realize that using the recently published normative data will result in different clinical conclusions because the updated normative sampl...