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Assessing planning skills and executive functions in the elderly: preliminary normative data for the Tower of London Test

2012; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 70; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0004-282x2012001000015

1678-4227

Jonas Jardim de Paula, Fátima Regina de Almeida Lima Neves, Ângela Levy, Elaine Nassif, Leandro Fernandes Malloy‐Diniz,

Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Executive functions are cognitive processes related to planning, execution, and analysis of objective-guided behavior usually associated with fronto-striatal neurocircuitry1. The planning skills are one of the executive functions associated with the sequencing of steps aiming a nonimmediate objective. A classical measure of planning skills is the Tower of London Test (TOL), developed by Shallice2 and adapted by Krikorian3, frequently used in clinical and research settings […] Assessing planning skills and executive functions in the elderly: preliminary normative data for the Tower [...]