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Marca and AS sports newspapers, quoting sources close to the
driver, said the double world champion had short and long-term
memory and reflex checks in Cambridge.
There was no immediate comment from McLaren.
The driver, who suffered concussion after crashing in testing in
Barcelona last month, missed the March 15 Australian
season-opener and must still pass FIA tests at the Sepang
circuit on Thursday before being able to race.
His manager has said those should be a formality.
McLaren, who have not won a race since 2012, were woefully off
the pace in Australia with Jenson Button finishing last in 11th
place after he and Danish team mate Kevin Magnussen qualified on
the back row.
Alonso is returning to McLaren, the team he drove for in 2007,
after five years at Ferrari and at the start of a new
Honda-powered era for the former champions.
The 33-year-old suffered temporary memory loss in his crash,
with some reports suggesting he had forgotten in the immediate
aftermath that he was a Formula One driver and could not
initially remember anything after 1995.
However McLaren racing director Eric Boullier played that down
at the time, saying the Spaniard -- who spent three nights in
hospital -- had suffered "a normal concussion" and everything
was back to normal.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ken Ferris)
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