Performance on the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised for Patients With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Mild Dementia

Brooker, Alan E.

doi:10.2466/pms.84.1.131-138

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“…With regard to AD, previous research (Brooker, 1997) has shown that AD patients score lower than healthy adults on both verbal memory and visual memory as measured by the WMS-R. To our knowledge there is no previous research studying the effects of AD on prospective memory or memory of faces. Therefore, it is not clear whether an AD condition affects all aspects of memory performance and metamemory reports.…”

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“…Therefore, it is essential to investigate the relationships between the two objective memory tests and the EMQ in a broader range of age groups. It is also interesting to test patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a comparison group to healthy adults, since in this group of patients we know that their objective performance is lower than that of healthy adults (Brooker, 1997; Robinson-Whelen & Storandt, 1992). It is expected that, unlike the Koltai et al (1996) study, the relationships between the WMS, the RBMT, and the EMQ will differ from the relationships in the healthy group.…”

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Wechsler Memory Scale, Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, and Everyday Memory Questionnaire in Healthy Adults and Alzheimer Patients

Efklides

Yiultsi

Kangellidou

et al. 2002

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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Summary: The Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) is a laboratory-based memory test that has been criticized for its lack of ecological validity and for not testing long-term memory. A more recent memory test, which aims at testing everyday memory, is the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test (RBMT); it tests prospective memory and other forms of memory not tapped by WMS. However, even this test does not capture all aspects of everyday memory problems often reported by adults. These problems are the object of the Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ). This study aimed at identifying the relationships between these three memory tests. The differential effect of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on the above relationships was also studied. The sample consisted of 233 healthy adults (20 to 75+ years of age) and 39 AD patients (50 to 75 years of age). Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the following latent factors: Verbal Memory, Visual Reconstruction, Orientation, Message (action embedded in spatial context), Visual Recognition, Spatial Memory, New Learning/Association Forming, Prospective/Episodic Memory, and Metamemory. These first-order factors were further explained by two second-order factors: Semantic Memory and Coordination of Semantic and Visuo-Spatial Memory. This basic structure was preserved in the sample of AD patients, although AD patients performed less well on the WMS and the RBMT. Some interesting findings regarding semantic memory, face recognition, and metamemory in AD patients are also reported. Age, education, but no gender effects on memory performance were also detected.

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Wechsler Memory Scale, Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, and Everyday Memory Questionnaire in Healthy Adults and Alzheimer Patients

Efklides

Yiultsi

Kangellidou

et al. 2002

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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“…Both K-ABC subtests have been found to correlate highly with other tests of working memory, for example, the WISC-R Arithmetic (.65) and Digit Span (.63) tests (e.g., Boivin et al, 2010;Meesters, Van Gastel, Ghys, & Merckelbach, 1998), and they have been proven to be sensitive to revealing the cognitive sequelae of learning disability (e.g., ADHD, MD) and neuropathology (e.g., mild traumatic brain injury; Aunola, Leskinen, Lerkkanen, & Nurmi, 2004;Fox & Fox, 2001;Frencham, Fox, & Maybery, 2003;Knauss, Stavrinos, Pendleton, de Jong, & Schwebel, 2009;Shum, Neulinger, O'Callaghan, & Mohay, 2008;Smyth & Pendleton, 1989). HM may be even more sensitive than other, more "standard" tests (e.g., the Knox test) to predict working memory deficits in these populations (as suggested by e.g., Barry & Riley, 1987;Brooker, 1997;Fox & Fox, 2001;Frencham et al, 2003). Also, the value of the K-ABC subtests has been repeatedly demonstrated while finding support for the role of working memory in time estimation or TR in, for example, healthy individuals (e.g., Brocki & Bohlin, 2004;Zélanti & Droit-Volet, 2011).…”

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Time Estimation Deficits in Childhood Mathematics Difficulties

Hurks

Loosbroek

2012

J Learn Disabil

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Time perception has not been comprehensively examined in mathematics difficulties (MD). Therefore, verbal time estimation, production, and reproduction were tested in 13 individuals with MD and 16 healthy controls, matched for age, sex, and intellectual skills. Individuals with MD performed comparably to controls in time reproduction, but showed a tendency to be less accurate on tasks of verbal time estimation and time production. More specifically, these individuals overestimated the duration of a time interval in the verbal time estimation task and showed underproduction when required to produce a time sample. All previous significant comparisons remained significant after controlling for the effects of interval duration, working memory, attention allocation, and quantity estimation. These findings lead us to suggest that time estimation, and more specifically the "internal clock," is abnormally fast in individuals with MD. Results are discussed in terms of Meck and Church's model of temporal processing and Dehaene's triple code model for number processing.

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“…Differences in short-term memory performance for movement sequences compared to verbal and visuospatial sequences have also been noted in the neuropsychological literature. As mentioned, individuals with TBI have been found to perform poorly on the KHMT, yet they are unimpaired on digit span and visual span tasks from the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R; Wechsler, 1987); tests argued to tap short-term verbal and visuospatial memory (Barry & Riley, 1987;Brooker, 1997;Fox et al, 1993;Fox & Fox, 2001). One interpretation of these findings is that components of short-term memory are differentially affected following TBI.…”

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The Hand Movement Test as a tool in neuropsychological assessment: Interpretation within a working memory theoretical framework

Frencham

Fox

Maybery

2003

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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While the Kaufman Hand Movements Test (KHMT) is argued to be sensitive to cognitive impairment secondary to various forms of brain dysfunction in adults, it is unknown which cognitive processes it addresses. Dual-task research has employed tasks similar to the KHMT to determine whether such tasks assess (1) verbal or visuospatial memory, or (2) a proposed additional short-term memory component, movement memory. However findings consistent with both hypotheses have been reported. Experiment 1 involved 24 participants completing a hand movement task and a letter span task under articulatory suppression, finger movement and no interference conditions. Performance on both the hand movement task and letter span task was significantly reduced by articulatory suppression. In Experiment 2, 16 participants were administered the hand movement task and a Corsi span task under articulatory suppression, finger movement, spatial tapping, and no interference. Again, hand movement span was most reduced by articulatory suppression, in contrast to Corsi span which was most reduced by spatial tapping. Hand movement task performance was therefore assumed to rely upon verbal recoding strategies and thus the proposition of an additional component of movement memory was not supported.

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Performance on the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised for Patients With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Mild Dementia

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References 9 publications

Wechsler Memory Scale, Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, and Everyday Memory Questionnaire in Healthy Adults and Alzheimer Patients

Wechsler Memory Scale, Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, and Everyday Memory Questionnaire in Healthy Adults and Alzheimer Patients

Time Estimation Deficits in Childhood Mathematics Difficulties

The Hand Movement Test as a tool in neuropsychological assessment: Interpretation within a working memory theoretical framework

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