Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

How many camels are there in Italy? Cognitive estimates standardised on the Italian population

  • ORIGINAL
  • Published:
Neurological Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract.

Objective: We provided the standardisation of a new Cognitive Estimation Task (CET).

Participants: the test was administered to 175 healthy subjects.

Results: performance on the Cognitive Estimation Task (CET) is associated with gender (where women show poorer performance than men) and education (where more highly educated individuals show better performance compared to individuals with lower levels of education). However ,CET performance is not associated with age.

Discussion: the lack of age effects on the CET may be explained by the task dependence on “crystallised intelligence”, which is less affected by healthy adult ageing than “fluid intelligence”.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, , , , , , GB

    S. Della Sala, S.E. MacPherson & L.H. Phillips

  2. Third Neurology Clinic, Polo Didattico S. Paolo, Department of Medicine, Neurology and Dentistry University of Milan, Via A. di Rudinì 8, I-20142 Milan, Italy, , , , , , IT

    L. Sacco & H. Spinnler

Authors
  1. S. Della Sala
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. S.E. MacPherson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. L.H. Phillips
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. L. Sacco
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. H. Spinnler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Received: 2 September 2002 / Accepted in revised form: 28 January 2003

This paper was presented in preliminary form at the annual meeting of Italian Neurological Society (SIN), Rimini, 2001.

Correspondence to: L. Sacco

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Della Sala, S., MacPherson, S., Phillips, L. et al. How many camels are there in Italy? Cognitive estimates standardised on the Italian population. Neurol Sci 24, 10–15 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100720300015

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100720300015

Search

Navigation