Pdf elderly norms for the hopkins verbal learning test. The test consists of three trials of freerecall of a 12item, semantically categorized list, followed by. Demographic variables, such as age, education, and gender, routinely affect performance on neuropsychological tests. The hopkins verbal learning test hvlt is a brief verbal learning and memory test with six alternate forms. Assess verbal learning and memory immediate recall, delayed recall, delayed recognition. Brandt, 1991 is a brief verbal learning and memory test with five forms. Raw learning and recall scores on the hopkins verbal learning test, revised hvltr and brief visuospatial memory test, revised bvmtr were compared between sexes within the entire sample and. The hvlt is ideal in situations calling for repeated neuropsychological examinations, but it lacks a delayed recall trial which is essential for the assessment of abnormal forgetting. Normative data and analysis of interform and test retest reliability. The trial 4, is administered 2025 mins after trial 3. It includes a three trials in which the examinee recalls as many of the words read to them. The hvlt is ideal in situations calling for repeated neuropsychological examinations. Whereas normative data is available to correct for these variables on many tests, it is lacking on the hopkins verbal learning test revised hvltr and brief visuospatial memory test revised bvmtr, especially in the elderly.
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