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Neuropsychological assessment with the Visual Gestalt Test: Psychometric properties and differential diagnostic probabilities
Author(s) -
LA COUR PETER,
ANDERSEN RUTH
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2006.00487.x
Subject(s) - psychology , bender gestalt test , neuropsychology , gestalt psychology , neuropsychological test , test (biology) , psychometrics , neuropsychological assessment , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , malingering , psychiatry , cognition , projective test , neuroscience , perception , paleontology , psychoanalysis , biology
The Visual Gestalt Test is a neuropsychological instrument developed for evaluation of learning and memory of visuo‐spatial material. A revised strategy of scoring has motivated the present study, where data from 153 normal persons, 99 epilepsy patients, and 24 depressed patients are presented and compared. The Visual Gestalt Test is observed to discriminate between normal and diagnosed groups in several ways. Additionally it is found to discriminate between depressed and brain damage subgroups of patients. Data are presented in order to supplement previously published ways of scoring and norms. Practical guidelines for the clinical applications of the test are suggested as perspectives.