Background and aims: The simple verbal analogies test (SVAT) is a short neuropsychological task requiring few minutes of administration that explores inductive verbal abstract thinking. It already showed a good specificity and sensitivity in discriminating normal controls from probable Alzheimer's disease patients. Verbal working memory, semantic knowledge and memory and word-finding ability are also involved in performing analogies. The aim of this study is to provide the normative values of this test in a sample of normal controls and corrections of raw scores and equivalent scores.
Methods and results: We determined the normative values of SVAT in a sample of 424 normal controls to provide corrections of raw scores and equivalent scores.
Conclusions: SVAT is a useful test to assess executive functions, working memory and to discriminate between cognitive deterioration and normal aging.