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I. NIH TOOLBOX COGNITION BATTERY (CB): INTRODUCTION AND PEDIATRIC DATA
Author(s) -
Weintraub Sandra,
Bauer Patricia J.,
Zelazo Philip David,
WallnerAllen Kathleen,
Dikmen Sureyya S.,
Heaton Robert K.,
Tulsky David S.,
Slotkin Jerry,
Blitz David L.,
Carlozzi Noelle E.,
Havlik Richard J.,
Beaumont Jennifer L.,
Mungas Dan,
Manly Jennifer J.,
Borosh Beth G.,
Nowinski Cindy J.,
Gershon Richard C.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
monographs of the society for research in child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1540-5834
pISSN - 0037-976X
DOI - 10.1111/mono.12031
Subject(s) - toolbox , cognition , psychology , blueprint , test (biology) , cognitive test , brain structure and function , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , computer science , programming language , mechanical engineering , paleontology , engineering , biology
ABSTRACT This monograph presents the pediatric portion of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB) of the NIH Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function. The NIH Toolbox is an initiative of the Neuroscience Blueprint, a collaborative framework through which 16 NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices jointly support neuroscience‐related research, to accelerate discoveries and reduce the burden of nervous system disorders. The CB is one of four modules that measure cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor health across the lifespan. The CB is unique in its continuity across childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and old age, and in order to help create a common currency among disparate studies, it is also available at low cost to researchers for use in large‐scale longitudinal and epidemiologic studies. This chapter describes the evolution of the CB; methods for selecting cognitive subdomains and instruments; the rationale for test design; and a validation study in children and adolescents, ages 3–15 years. Subsequent chapters feature detailed discussions of each test measure and its psychometric properties (Chapters 2–6), the factor structure of the test battery (Chapter 7), the effects of age and education on composite test scores (Chapter 8), and a final summary and discussion (Chapter 9). As the chapters in this monograph demonstrate, the CB has excellent psychometric properties, and the validation study provided evidence for the increasing differentiation of cognitive abilities with age.