ArticleJournal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology2017
Short-term practice effects in mild cognitive impairment: Evaluating different methods of change.
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- Practice effects persist over two decades of cognitive testing: Implications for longitudinal research.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Characterizing and validating 12-month reliable cognitive change in Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease for use in clinical trials.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025Article
- Validation of the multi-day Boston remote assessment of neurocognitive health (BRANCH) among cognitively impaired & unimpaired older adults.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025Article
- Decreased practice effects in cognitively unimpaired amyloid betapositive individuals: a multicenter, longitudinal, cohort study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Evaluating practice effects across learning trials - ceiling effects or something more?Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology · 2024Article
- Capturing learning curves with the multiday Boston Remote Assessment of Neurocognitive Health (BRANCH): Feasibility, reliability, and validity.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
- Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Using Manual Motor Measures.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2024Article
- Neural network process simulations support a distributed memory system and aid design of a novel computer adaptive digital memory test for preclinical and prodromal Alzheimer's disease.Neuropsychology · 2023Article
- Delayed and More Variable Unimanual and Bimanual Finger Tapping in Alzheimer's Disease: Associations with Biomarkers and Applications for Classification.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- Demographically-corrected normative data for the RBANS learning ratio in a sample of older adults.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2022Article
- Validation of one-year reliable change in the RBANS for community-dwelling older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2022Article
- Practice effects in performance outcome measures in patients living with neurologic disorders - A systematic review.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Logistic versus linear regression-based reliable change index: A simulation study with implications for clinical studies with different sample sizes.Psychological assessment · 2022Article
- Evaluating the Impact of Cochlear Implantation on Cognitive Function in Older Adults.The Laryngoscope · 2022Article
- Parameterizing Practice in a Longitudinal Measurement Burst Design to Dissociate Retest Effects From Developmental Change: Implications for Aging Neuroscience.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Assessment and Monitoring of Neurocognitive Function in Pediatric Cancer.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2021Review
- Validation of one-week reliable change methods in cognitively intact community-dwelling older adults.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Practice effects are improvements on cognitive tests as a result of repeated exposure to testing material. However, variability exists in the literature about whether patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) display practice effects, which may be partially due to the methods used to calculate these changes on repeated tests. The purpose of the current study was to examine multiple methods of assessing short-term practice effects in 58 older adults with MCI. The cognitive battery, which included tests of memory (Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised and Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised) and processing speed (Symbol Digit Modalities Test and Trail Making Test Parts A and B), was administered twice across one week. Dependent t tests showed statistically significant improvement on memory scores (ps < .01, ds = 0.8-1.3), but not on processing speed scores. Despite this, the sample showed no clinically meaningful improvement on any cognitive scores using three different reliable change indices. Regression-based change scores did identify relatively large groups of participants who showed smaller than expected practice effects, which may indicate that this method is more sensitive in identifying individuals who may portend a declining trajectory. Practice effects remain a complex construct, worthy of continued investigation in diverse clinical conditions.
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