Development and validation of an experimental verbal Episodic Memory task in Spanish.
Gabriel Urrutia Urrutia, Pedro García Montenegro, Karina Carlesso Pagliarin and 1 others
PMID 37729343WHAT IT FOUND
A Spanish verbal episodic memory task was judged understandable by four speech-language pathologists and six older adults.
It is not a validated clinical test.
Key findings
01Four speech-language pathologists agreed the task allowed combined manipulation of processing level and cognitive effort and that instructions were clear.
02Six cognitively normal older adults found the instructions, examples, and workflow easy, but they confused the superficial encoding instruction.
03The reported mean completion times were 1.65, 2.44, and 3.53 minutes for the deep blocks and 2.05, 2.45, and 2.97 minutes for the superficial blocks.
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What it does not show
The pilot used six older adults, so it cannot show how the task performs in larger or more diverse groups. The paper reports content validity and pilot feedback, not clinical usefulness. The authors state that the task's plausibility is mainly restricted to the research field. The task was built for Spanish of Chile, so other Spanish-speaking populations may need psycholinguistic adaptation. The superficial encoding instruction confused pilot participants and was revised after the pilot.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this as a clinically validated memory test. It was developed for research, content validity came from four judges and six pilot participants, and the authors state its plausibility is mainly restricted to the research field.