Mayo's older americans normative studies: Updated AVLT norms for ages 56 to 97

Abstract Data obtained in Mayo's Older Americans Normative Studies (MOANS) provide age-specific norms for Rey's Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) on a sample of 530 cognitively normal persons age 56 to 97. The information reported here updates and revises our previously published AVLT norms for the elderly. In addition to expanding the data set on whom these AVLT norms are based, this report revises the manner in which AVLT scores are summarized. Also, the methodology of converting AVLT scores to age-corrected and normalized MOANS Scaled Scores and then converting MOANS Scaled Score Sums to summary MAYO Indices (as used in related WAIS-R and WMS-R normative reports) is applied to these AVLT data. These revisions result in AVLT MOANS Scaled Scores and MAYO Auditory-Verbal Indices that are comparable to similar indices derived for the WAIS-R and the WMS-R.