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Recognition and naming of famous buildings: Italian normative data

Authors: Concetta Mina, Massimo Marianetti, Mariangela Fratino, Mirella Montemurro, Nicola Vanacore, Giuseppe Amadio Amabile

Published in: Neurological Sciences | Issue 4/2010

Abstract

Semantically unique items are concrete entities characterized by a unique cluster of semantic information. In this field, neuropsychology has always given more attention to faces than to other kind of stimuli. An important category that has been largely neglected so far is famous buildings. A total of 200 healthy Italian adults with age, sex and education homogenously distributed across subgroups were administered a famous buildings naming and recognition test, which assessed both visual and verbal modalities. The test was divided in seven sections; norms were calculated taking into account demographic variables such as age, sex and education. Multiple regression analyses showed that education influenced significantly the performance on all subtests; age had a significant effect for five subtests; sex for three subtests. Adjusted scores were used to determine inferential cutoff scores and to compute equivalent scores.

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Title: Recognition and naming of famous buildings: Italian normative data
Authors: Concetta Mina
Massimo Marianetti
Mariangela Fratino
Mirella Montemurro
Nicola Vanacore
Giuseppe Amadio Amabile
Publication date: 01-08-2010
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: Neurological Sciences / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1590-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1590-3478
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-010-0244-2

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