The Halstead Category Test: A Fifty Year Perspective

Choca, James P.; Laatsch, Linda; Wetzel, Linda; Agresti, Albert A.

doi:10.1023/b:nerv.0000005944.98635.16

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“…The instruments selected for the assessment of executive functions in this study have a solid trajectory of being sensitive to lesions in the frontal lobes, particularly in patients with mild traumatic brain injury. Relative to the Halstead Category Test the reader is referred to the following publications: Choca et al (1997) and Herrera Pino, Salcedo Samper, & Jubiz Bassi (2008). In order to determine the ability of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test to assess executive functions mediated by the frontal lobes, the reader is referred to the following works:…”

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The Relationship between Intelligence and Executive Functions in Hispanic Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Herrera-Pino¹,

Castellanos²

2020

PSYCH

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Executive functions have been described as the "brain of the brain" and to include a variety of processes, including, but not limited to, abstraction, formulation of intentions, reasoning, formulation of strategies, monitoring their success, working memory, and the self-regulation of behavior. Executive functions have been determined to be associated with the integrity of the frontal lobes. On the other hand, intelligence has also been described in similar terms, and the concept of general intelligence, or the g factor has also been associated with the frontal lobes. As constructs, intelligence and executive functions have been also described as "overlapping" in many features, while maintaining a certain degree of conceptual independence. The purpose of this study was to compare the intellectual functioning of a sample of patients with mild traumatic brain injury, obtained by means of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS), with their performance in a number of neuropsychological measures of executive functions, such as the Halstead Category Test (HCT), the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), the Stroop Word and Color Test (SWCT), and the Trail Making Test (TMT). Pearson Product Moment Correlations were obtained between the various measures of the RIAS and the measures of executive functions (HCT, WCST, SWCT, TMT). Whereas the magnitudes of the correlations were within the moderate range, intelligence, particularly non-verbal intelligence and working memory were noted to be significantly correlated with the measures of executive functions. The conclusion was reached that intelligence and executive functions are related to each other as constructs, but yet maintain a certain degree of independence.

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The Relationship between Intelligence and Executive Functions in Hispanic Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Herrera-Pino¹,

Castellanos²

2020

PSYCH

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“…While the Category Test is sensitive to variety of brain disturbances (Choca, Laatsch, Wetzel, & Agresti, 1997), it is a complex measure. Convergent validity coefficients suggest that it is correlated with spatial-analytical skills (Perrine, 1993) a,c…”

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Call for an Integrative and Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Mansour¹,

Lajiness-O’Neill²

2015

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Much has been gained in our understanding of the psychopathology, assessment, and treatment of TBI. Still lacking is the breadth and depth that an integrative and multi-disciplinary approach to TBI portends. While there is a greater awareness of a need for such a systems-based approach as evidenced by the number of professional organizations and government agencies recently advocating a need for standardization in the collection data in TBI, the application of multi-dimensional approach, and the development novel strategies to deliver prevention, assessment and treatment to large, diverse populations, we are still in the early stages in making this important shift. In the nearer term, there are clinical assessment and interventional programs that can be developed and empirically validated to bring us closer to this integrative, multi-disciplinary ideal. The following review calls for a universal diagnostic classification system for TBI, integration of pathophysiology and pharmacological and rehabilitative therapies, development of treatments addressing disorders comorbid with TBI, and the delivery of assessment and treatment services to large underserved populations.

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“…Halstead Category Test (Heaton, Grant, & Matthews, 1991;Reitan & Wolfson, 1993) Administered on a personal computer, this test measures abstraction and sequential problem solving (for review, see Choca, Laatsch, Wetzel, & Agresti, 1997). Participants were presented with seven subtests in which they were required to deduce the rule being used for the selection of one out of four objects presented on the screen for each subtest.…”

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Effects of Marathi-Hindi Bilingualism on Neuropsychological Performance

Kamat

Ghate

Gollan

et al. 2011

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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The present study aimed to examine if bilingualism affects executive functions and verbal fluency in Marathi and Hindi, two major languages in India, with a considerable cognate (e.g., activity is actividad in Spanish) overlap. A total of 174 native Marathi speakers from Pune, India, with varying levels of Hindi proficiency were administered tests of executive functioning and verbal performance in Marathi. A bilingualism index was generated using self-reported Hindi and Marathi proficiency. After controlling for demographic variables, the association between bilingualism and cognitive performance was examined. Degree of bilingualism predicted better performance on the switching (Color Trails-2) and inhibition (Stroop Color-Word) components of executive functioning; but not for the abstraction component (Halstead Category Test). In the verbal domain, bilingualism was more closely associated with noun generation (where the languages share many cognates) than verb generation (which are more disparate across these languages), as predicted. However, contrary to our hypothesis that the bilingualism “disadvantage” would be attenuated on noun generation, bilingualism was associated with an advantage on these measures. These findings suggest distinct patterns of bilingualism effects on cognition for this previously unexamined language pair, and that the rate of cognates may modulate the association between bilingualism and verbal performance on neuropsychological tests.

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The Halstead Category Test: A Fifty Year Perspective

Cited by 30 publications

References 134 publications

The Relationship between Intelligence and Executive Functions in Hispanic Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

The Relationship between Intelligence and Executive Functions in Hispanic Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Call for an Integrative and Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Effects of Marathi-Hindi Bilingualism on Neuropsychological Performance

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