Two certified psychologists performed the neuropsychological testing of the children at age 4 years measuring cognitive functioning with the Spanish version of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MCSA), consisting of 5 sub-scales assessing several cognitive domains (verbal, perceptual-performance, quantitative, memory, and motor) and a general cognitive index [31] [33].
The MCSA consists of 18 items derived from six different scales (assessing general cognitive, verbal, perceptual-performance, quantitative, memory, and motor abilities).
Angel, A., Song, J., Dean, C. & Howard, M. A Polycomb-based switch underlying quantitative epigenetic memory.
The McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities assesses cognitive and motor skills through five scales: perceptual-performance, quantitative, verbal, memory, and motor skills.
Only one of these studies also presented the results separately for the Verbal, Quantitative, Perceptual Performance Memory, and Motor Scales (Jacobson et al. 1990).
The association between prenatal DDE exposure and child neurodevelopment during 42 60 months of age was estimated through mixed effect multivariate models, for each component of the McCarthy Scale (perceptual-performance, quantitative, verbal, memory, and motor) and separately for each trimester of pregnancy.
This paper presents an analysis that provides a quantitative description of memory states sufficient for correct choices at specific decision points.
WM capacity may be assessed using behavioral tasks that result in a quantitative measure of memory span.
p,p′ -DDT cord serum concentration was inversely associated with general cognitive, memory, quantitative, and verbal skills, as well as executive function and working memory, in children who had any GSTP1 Val-105 allele.
Results: After adjustment, a doubling of DDE during the third trimester of pregnancy was associated with statistically significant reductions of –1.37, –0.88, –0.84, and –0.80 points in the general cognitive index, quantitative, verbal, and memory components respectively.
In our cohort, maternal serum DDE level during the first trimester was negatively associated with psychomotor development (Bayley Scale) (Bayley 1993) during the first year of life (Torres-Sánchez et al. 2007), whereas maternal serum DDE during the third trimester was negatively associated with GCI, quantitative, verbal, and memory skills (McCarthy Scale) between 3.5 and 5 years of age.
