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A simple reasoning test involving the understanding of sentences of various levels of syntactic complexity is described. It is short, easily administered, and reliable. Performance correlates with intelligence (+.59) and has proved to be sensitive to a number of stresses.
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Baddeley, A.D. A 3 min reasoning test based on grammatical transformation. Psychon Sci 10, 341–342 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331551
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