Performance on verbal memory tests is generally associated with socio-demographic variables such as age, sex, and education level. Performance also varies between different cultural groups. The present study aimed to establish normative data for the Rappel libre/Rappel indicé à 16 items (16-item Free and Cued Recall; RL/RI-16), a French adaptation of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (Buschke, 1984; Grober, Buschke, Crystal, Bang, & Dresner, 1988). The sample consisted of 566 healthy French-speaking older adults (50-88 years old) from the province of Quebec, Canada. Normative data for the RL/RI-16 were derived from 80% of the total sample (normative sample) and cross-validated using the remaining participants (20%; validation sample). The effects of participants' age, sex, and education level were assessed on different indices of memory performance. Results indicated that these variables were independently associated with performance. Normative data are presented as regression equations with standard deviations (symmetric distributions) and percentiles (asymmetric distributions).
This paper presents a detailed single-case study of a patient (BT) with dementia of the Alzheimer's type who showed impairments in number processing. Numeral comprehension and calculation abilities were largely preserved but the patient encountered substantial difficulties in transcoding tasks. In addition to syntactic errors, she produced numerous perseverations and intrusion errors, especially when she had to transcode arabic numerals into written verbal numerals and vice versa. In the present study, we show that these errors are concomitant with but not dependent on the syntactic deficit. We also demonstrate that their production is not exclusive to the numerical domain but clearly depend on the attentional processing load as well as on the familiarity of the transcoding task. To account for these data, we suggest that perseverations and intrusion errors are attentional in nature and originate from a unique impairment in selective attention capacities.
Totalement inscrit dans l’univers privé domestique, l’activité professionnelle des assistantes maternelles “employées” directement par des particuliers, fondée juridiquement sur un statut salarial récent et plus que flottant, cumule les ingrédients à la fois de la précarité institutionnalisée et de l’invisibilité. Activité internalisée étroitement liée le plus souvent à du travail au noir, à des services rendus gratuitement et à des échanges extra-marchands, travail et activité effectués et devant être effectués dans “l’ordre naturel des choses”, contournement de la base économique du rapport salarial, “naturalisation” des savoir-faire maternels, sont autant d’éléments qui enrayent l’accès au rang d’emploi de cette activité, qui reste dès lors une figure du sous-salariat et du sous-emploi. A domicile, l’emploi entre particuliers reste un mirage, socialement réservé aux femmes, de milieux populaires.
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