The present invention provides methods for assessing memory in a subject and for screening for agents directed to treating or preventing memory impairment and dementia characterized by memory impairment. The memory tests provide within-person measures of memory impairment, in addition to normative between-person measures of memory impairment, and comprise detecting memory impairment by decreased recall and discrimination of the second of two coordinated lists of items to be recalled from memory.
Memory capacity tests and uses thereof