The verbal selective reminding test: preliminary data for healthy elderly.

The verbal selective reminding test was administered to sixty independent living well-educated, healthy elderly, aged 65-75. All subjects met exclusion criteria which were designed to ensure that the results were not secondary to deficits in attention, verbal fluency and intellectual function. On selective reminding, the females did significantly better than the males on most dependent measures. Males and females showed a significant decrease from last trial recall to recall following a fifteen minute delay.