Evaluation of Auditory Verbal Memory Performance and learning of Persian-Speaking Men and Women with RAVLT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Elnaz Eghbali ¹
• Shahla Sharifi ²

¹ Elnaz Eghbali, MA in linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

² Shahla Sharifi, associate professor of linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/jlkd.2019.39341

Abstract

Auditory memory plays an important role in developing language skills. The aim of the present study was to assess auditory verbal memory performance of 25-30 year old educated men and women using the Persian version of the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on sixty 25-30 year old healthy adults (30 men and 30 women) and different aspects of memory, like immediate recall, delayed recall, recognition, learning rate, forgetting rate, proactive and retroactive interference and primacy and recency effects, were assessed. Results indicated that the women's performance was generally higher than that of the men in first, third, fourth and sixth of RAVLT and also total learning. In other trials and composite scores, gender was not a significant factor. In addition, findings showed that the auditory-verbal memory performance and learning of both groups was similar to the performance of the same population in other countries.

Keywords

• Evaluation
• Verbal Memory
• learning of Persian-Speaking
• RAVLT

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