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The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (Pasat): Norms For Age, Education, And Ethnicity

San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego, Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology

Robert K. Heaton

Walden Miller

Igor Grant

University of California, San Diego and the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center

The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) is often used to measure attention, concentration, working memory, and speed of information processing. Using a modified 200-item version of the PASAT with presentation rates of 3.0, 2.4, 2.0, and 1.6 items per second, we analyzed demographic influences on test performance in a large sample (N = 566) of healthy North American adults. We found that age, education, and ethnicity were significant predictors, accounting for nearly 23% of the variance in test performance. We discuss these results in comparison to previous normative studies, and present a formula and tables for computing age, education, and ethnicity-adjusted T scores for performance on the PASAT-200.

Key Words: Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) • norms • demographic corrections • ethnicity effects • African American norms

Assessment, Vol. 5, No. 4, 375-387 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/107319119800500407


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