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Cognitive Domains in Low Literacy Populations: The Experience of the Maracaibo Aging Study

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Although there is a growing interest in improving cognitive abilities in older adults, there has been considerable variation in how different cognitive domains have been conceptualized over time. Broadly, neuropsychology assumes that cognitive processes are fundamentally similar across humankind (Nell, 1999), and as such, the manner in which cognitive processes are assessed is similar across cultures (Rivera Mindt, Byrd, Saez, & Manly, 2010).

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Acknowledgments

In memory of Milady Urribarri, who died September 5, 2016 and contributed extensively to the cognitive testing in Maracaibo Aging Study. This work was supported by Grants G-97000726 from FONACIT (Maestre, Pino, Arteaga), 1R01AG036469-01A1 from the National Institute on Aging and Fogarty International Center (Maestre, Melgarejo). None of the sources of financial support for this study had any involvement in study design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of data, nor in the writing of the report or in the decision to submit the material for publication. We also acknowledge the South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute (STDOI) for support in preparation of this report.

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  1. Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

    Eduardo E. Arteaga-Bracho, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Carlos A. Chavez, Gloria Pino-Ramirez & Gladys E. Maestre

  2. Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Jesus D. Melgarejo

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Joseph D. Terwilliger

  4. Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Joseph D. Terwilliger & Joseph H. Lee

  5. Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Joseph D. Terwilliger

  6. Division of Medical Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Joseph D. Terwilliger

  7. Taub Institute for Research of Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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  8. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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  9. Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA

    Gladys E. Maestre

  10. Department of Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA

    Gladys E. Maestre

  11. Rio Grande Valley Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, Brownsville, TX, USA

    Gladys E. Maestre

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Arteaga-Bracho, E.E. et al. (2021). Cognitive Domains in Low Literacy Populations: The Experience of the Maracaibo Aging Study. In: Angel, J.L., López Ortega, M., Gutierrez Robledo, L.M. (eds) Understanding the Context of Cognitive Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70119-2_2

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