{"title":"Visuoperceptual performances in aging and dementia: clinical and theoretical implications.","authors":"P J Eslinger, A L Benton","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spatial and nonspatial visuoperceptual abilities were assessed in normal older subjects (65-94 years of age) and in a sample of age-matched patients with various forms of dementia. Steady, moderate decline was evident with increasing age in normal subjects but severe visuoperceptual impairments occurred in many dementia patients, indicating that such assessment may be of benefit in the detection of abnormal mental decline. Dissociations in performance were frequent among dementia patients but not among normals, suggesting that dementia may be manifested in differential perceptual-cognitive decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"213-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17674638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normative data for the Halstead-Reitan neuropsychological tests.","authors":"D Fromm-Auch, L T Yeudall","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Normative data from a large neurologically intact, nonpsychiatric adult sample (male = 111, female = 82) are presented. Despite he size limitations in the upper age ranges, these data are consistent with previously published norms. Sex effects are evident, with females appearing weaker and slower than males on motor tests. The higher than average WAIS FSIQ displayed by this normal sample and the previous use of psychiatric patients as control subjects is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"221-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17674639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of pairing scanning training with block design training in the remediation of perceptual problems in left hemiplegics.","authors":"G C Young, D Collins, M Hren","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Twenty-seven left hemiplegics were divided into three groups of nine, matched for age, education, degree of left neglect, and time since onset of stroke. Subjects were pretested and, following the training, posttested on the WAIS Performance subtests, the WRAT Reading subtest, a letter cancellation task, an address-copying task, and a face-counting task. Subjects received 1 hour of occupational therapy (OT) each day for 20 successive days as follows: Group I received 1 hour of routine OT; Group II received 20 minutes of routine OT, 20 minutes of cancellation training, and 20 minutes of visual scanning training; Group III received 20 minutes of block design training, 20 minutes of cancellation training, and 20 minutes of visual scanning training. Groups II and III improved on measures of visual scanning, reading, and writing to a significantly greater extent than did Group I, and Group III improved to a significantly greater extent than did Group II. Few differences among the groups were seen on measures of psychometric intelligence and face counting. The results, for the most part, supported previous findings and, furthermore, indicated that block design training enhances the effect of visual scanning training techniques in the remediation of perceptual problems in left hemiplegics.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 3","pages":"201-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17674775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construct validity of the Knox Cube Test as a neuropsychological measure.","authors":"R A Bornstein","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401158","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Knox Cube Test is used in conjunction with some neuropsychological test batteries as a measure of visual attention and memory, but no data are available regarding the validity of this measure in a neuropsychological context. The present investigation examined the construct validity of the Knox Cube Test as a measure of attention span, and also as a neuropsychological instrument. Two independent samples were administered a battery of tests including the Knox Cube Test. The test was found to be strongly related to most of the measures, and in both samples the highest correlations were found with digit span backwards, Trail Making Test and Speech Perception Test. Factor analysis in the two samples revealed that the highest loadings for the Knox Cube Test were observed on a factor interpreted as measuring attention and concentration. These findings were discussed in regard to the validity of the Knox Cube Test, and its potential use in clinical neuropsychological examination.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"105-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17913391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychometric properties of dichotic words tests.","authors":"C M Clark, O Spreen","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study examined the reliability of a measure of ear advantage and the total scores derived from the dichotic listening task. The scores for both measures were found: (1) not to differ from the normal distribution, and (2) to be reliable over items, tests, and time. However, the total scores were dependent upon stimulus materials and experience. In addition, a psychometric classification model was proposed and it was found that the majority, at least 51.6% of the subjects, did not exhibit a truly measureable ear advantage. Finally, it was argued that total scores as well as ear advantage should be considered in the analysis of dichotic listening studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"169-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17913396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An application of the background interference procedure to the Benton Visual Retention Test.","authors":"D J Crockett, C Clark, J Browning, J MacDonald","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401164","url":null,"abstract":"This study involved applying Canter's Background Interference Procedure to the Benton Visual Retention Test. In a heterogeneous sample of psychiatric and brain-damaged patients, it was found that brain-damaged patients reproduced fewer designs and made more errors in reproducing those designs than did psychiatric patients. Right-hemisphere and diffusely brain-damaged patients reproduced fewer designs correctly and made more errors than did left-hemisphere damaged patients. This pattern was maintained when the effects of level of intellectual functioning and age were statistically controlled. These results suggest that the Background Interference Procedure in conjunction with the Benton Visual Retention Test may make a contribution to the assessment of brain-injured patients.","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"181-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401164","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17913397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R S Wilson, L D Bacon, J H Fox, R L Kramer, A W Kaszniak
{"title":"Word frequency effect and recognition memory in dementia of the Alzheimer type.","authors":"R S Wilson, L D Bacon, J H Fox, R L Kramer, A W Kaszniak","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401157","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Normal persons show better recognition memory for rare than for common words. In the first experiment, we examined this word frequency effect in 17 patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and 20 normal controls of equivalent age and education. The DAT patients showed a normal tendency to false alarm to common words but failed to show the normal rare word advantage in their hit rate. In a second experiment, we examined normal memory immediately and after a delay of 1 week when it is approximately equivalent to that of DAT patients. There was no attenuation of the usual rare word advantage. These findings suggest that DAT patients fail to encode the featural and intrastructural elements of to-be-remembered verbal information and that this processing deficit may contribute to their impaired recognition memory performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"97-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401157","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17914980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confirmatory factor analysis of four general neuropsychological models with a modified Halstead-Reitan battery.","authors":"R F Newby, C E Hallenbeck, S Embretson","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401159","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Four theoretical factor models for a modified Halstead-Reitan battery were formulated, drawing from previous work by Swiercinsky, Royce and co-workers, Christensen and Luria, and Lezak. The relative explanatory power of these four models for this particular battery in an adult neuropsychiatric population was examined using confirmatory factor analysis. None of the models was shown to fit adequately in an absolute sense, but three of them represented substantial, statistically reliable improvements over a null model of mutual independence, and a clear pattern of relative fit was observed. Further improvements were achieved by modifying the best fitting initial model in several ways. A cross-validation with an independent sample supported the results of the model development step. Tentative theoretical and clinical implications for the overall organization of the neuropsychological abilities measured by this battery were drawn, and recommendations were made for further application of this method in neuropsychological research.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"115-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17913392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factor analysis of the WAIS and Wechsler Memory Scale: an analysis of the construct validity of the Wechsler Memory Scale.","authors":"G J Larrabee, R L Kane, J R Schuck","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401162","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The WAIS and Wechsler Memory Scale subtest scores of 256 neurologic and nonneurologic subjects were factor analyzed. The results supported the construct validity of the Wechsler Memory Scale as a measure of verbal learning and memory, attention and concentration, and orientation. Construct validity was not demonstrated for the Visual Reproduction subtest as a measure of visual memory. Suggestions are offered for future development and research on measures of visual memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"159-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17913395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test and presenile dementia.","authors":"T G Crookes","doi":"10.1080/01688638308401165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638308401165","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The records of psychiatric patients seen for clinical reasons were used to examine the discriminating capacity of the rotation score of the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test. Thirty-one patients with an eventual organic diagnosis were compared with a matched group with functional diagnoses. The main organic subgroup, 17 patients diagnosed as presenile dementia, had markedly raised rotation scores, while the remaining 14 of mixed diagnoses did not differ from their controls. This high rotation in presenile dementia is in striking contrast to the moderate rotation shown by patients with Korsakov's psychosis in a recent study by Helmes, Holden, and Howe. It is suggested that this reflects the differing pathology of the two conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"5 2","pages":"187-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638308401165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17913398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}