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Chunk #44 — Methods/Design — Participant Interview — Cognitive tests — Letter-number sequencing

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The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond.
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This subtest from the WAIS-IIIUK was used to assess working memory. Participants listen while the tester reads mixed, and increasingly long, strings of numbers and letters. They repeat them to the tester, with the numbers first, in numerical order, and then the letters in alphabetical order.