VARIATIONS IN AUDITORY AND VERBAL MEMORY WITH AGE

The aim of this work, has been focus an the study of an specific aspeet of the memory. To verify (establish) the influence of the age in the mnesic efficiency of the auditory verbal memory in the presence of non numerical stimulus structured and non structured. After the study of the upper functions in 162 persons, 69 persons of both sexes, who didn't show any objectable sign of the cognitive deterioration were selected and that in the moment of the neuropsicologist exploration weren't diagnosed of any Kind of pathology. The selected persons were divided in two groups depending of the age. A first group of bess than 65 years persons, and a second group of people over years. We found significant differences in the total efficiency of the Audio Verbal King evidence, the same as in the efficiency of the Babcock History between the two groups that were studied, being the second group (elder one) wich showed a warse efficiency in the total number of evoked words, the same as in the information unites remembered of History.