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SUBMITTER: Siedlecki KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2803322 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siedlecki Karen L KL Stern Yaakov Y Reuben Aaron A Sacco Ralph L RL Elkind Mitchell S V MS Wright Clinton B CB
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 20090701 4
Cognitive reserve is a hypothetical construct that has been used to inform models of cognitive aging and is presumed to be indicative of life experiences that may mitigate the effects of brain pathology. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the construct validity of cognitive reserve by examining both its convergent and its discriminant validity across three different samples of participants using structural equation modeling. The cognitive reserve variables were found to correlate highly w ...[more]