A A. COMPENDIUM OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS oe. [REY VISUAL DESIGN LEARNING TEST (RVDLT) Purpose “Ve purpose ofthis test isto assess nonverbal learning and memory. “Tne sno commercial sour, The user may refer tothe following deseription to wear the materials Description “Tis RUDLT isa bie easily administered measure that assesses immediate mem: “hy span new lemming, and rsogation memory. The test was developed by Rey ei and tuasated Into English by Graves and Sarin (085) inthe University 7 Visnia Laleatory The test const of 15 simple geomet forms, each on 2 “ya stimulus card (10% 7 em), presented atx rate of two seconds per card ‘eral eds have been presented, the subject must dra all the designs tht he se he can real Tht procedure i repeated five times. Inthe second pat, the rij mane Wenty the 15 designs from an aray of 90 designs. Figure 0-10 Evo me IS designs thatthe subject must ecall verte ive tials, Figure 11 Sve the 20 figures comprising the recognition ts. Admiisteation she examiner it facing the subject nd hands him br her a sheet of paper (SEX 11 jt cubelnsded ito T5erpty boves, anda peel. The examiner gives the instr Tope (elo then proceed ta preset each one ofthe 15 stimulus cards a 2 Hythe ecard, bing earful always to keep the same rhythm of trewenatnThen the sbjee is ietroctd to drawal the designs that e or she "rr romember. On the fist real, the sbjecthar@Oseconds to daw the designs, Ther whih tne the examiner removes the recall sheet. This procedure is repeat- ntl ve successive tals have been completed each ime, the examiner hands Icuubjecta now reall sheet and gives the appropriate instructions. For the lst ir tra the time allowed for exeetion ofthe drawings seconds or Thal I the examiner instruts the subject as follows: "Tam going to show synrssores of ards: Oneach ofthese cad there is design You are to look t Ji cards very earful Beeawte when Tam finished, Iwill ask you to draw all tise designs: The order in which you draw them is not important you are 9 Tol a tes Il |# | oa} a” 1S A2|—|A Figure 6-10. Rey Visa Design Leaning Test Prt 1 (Real een oe. wove in each br, a they come o your mind, Thre are fiften bores on this, See. There area ma ara: Do not worry ifyou do nat remember alo the designs the rst ime. Il how them to ou several ime, ‘nd each tine you wll again daw allt the designs that you can remember. Do Souunderstand? Yes? Then, here are the cards [present the 15 cards. Now ty to Arar the designton the shes Ixplaned to you Go ahead, (Wait one ‘Sip Put soue pene dow! Por Trials 2-5, say: “Tam going to show you the series of ards again, Please look st them eae and then try to raw thom ona new sheet of pape. Remember, you ae try to draw ll the designs, no jst he ones hat you had forgotten earlier. Do you understand? Yes? Then, here ae the designs [Allow 50 seconds for drawing] “Stop” For the Recognition test, the subject i given a blank sheet of paper and «’ A COMPENDIUM OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS, oO|% | Q OlX lO: oO) Vaya’ TAS) ale "eos aoc S| 61a lt ize 611. ey Vil Design Leaning Test: Ft 2 (Reto. rei and is shown the recognition sheet otic appear 0 desis, The Rininr gives the instructions. There en imitate time ofexceution, As soon w the suject has aed, the examiner removes the recoition and examination heet “Fhe examiner instructs the subj a fallow: "On this sheet you wil find al of the designs that you have jst learned and aters that you have not seen et [Lok over this shee rom the ft ight, an rom tpt bottr, aif you were ‘eaing. Each time you recognize a design hat you have learned write dawn its Corresponding numer on the shoot that T have just given to you. Tou see, the number of each design noted atthe righthand corner of each square. Do you Understand? Yow are to write down only the numbers ofthe designs you have ‘con carlin on the card, Pick up your pene and start. Approximate Time for Administration ‘The teat dation f about 15 slates ATTENTION AND MEMORY TESTS. am Scoring Recaut In this potion, one point i given foreach design reproduced correctly The ‘maximum possible is 15 points pe tel, fra total af 5 points rte whole test Gres seven for the flowing cases 1. Hf the drawing i ghtly distorted but recognizable 2 Ilitrspontaneously corrected, andthe coreectons leary represent the design ‘3 antncrzect deawing i rosed out clearly and replaced im the same fame bythe corectdvng which & then out of enter 1. PGS date comet. bur placed near ne sie or toward an ane hs drawing is execute at eater or smaller scale than that of the Mar tor the proportions between the fo elements are respected Specially the following ate considered correc (we Figure 6-10) 1 On Design 9, the lines meet each other 2 On Design 8. the diagonal of the square taced up to the vertices. 5, On Design 9, the cele attached to the line 4 On Design 15 the points ofthe tangles ae touching each other The flowing are considered incorrect for examples, see Figure 612 1, ‘The two elements incorrectly placed with regard to each other (©, De signs 1,10) 12 Reversal of rotation of the two elements with respect to eachother fe Designs 3.11.16) ‘small ice instead ofa date . Designs 12, 14) ‘A dot used instead of a small circle (eg: Design 4. 9) Marked distortions (eg. Designs 1,5) All angles having clessly faulty eientations: all anges having irked Aistrtions: neglecting the right angle (e.g. Designs 4, 8, 11) ‘Confaulation, uneeognizable or inomplete elements, combinations toe elements, ete “The examincr adds the scores fr each ofthe tras and fr the five al abe together Errors and omissions are alo computed. When designs ae crrst reproduced more than one, aly 1 pont is credited[A COMPENDIUM OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS oo | Bow 6 mT aoa > @ 08 o aoe . oat @ SO > or 4% @ A ob A gare 6-12 Rey Vial Design Letning Test: xamplercfincrect omineron Real ecoentnion Ail cores ers noted by the sabe ate score sone point. Ihe subject {hello te istration fo ook over the drawings if he or she was ‘dig, the numbers wl be out of sequence. The subject ail not be penalized {its mplgence, Te numbers of the drawings corethy ented are 5,7. 11s, 16 Ib 19,21, 3,28, 27, 28,29 Comment We found that when normal young adults are retested ster a one-month ater rtsteretest relay i low otal core across five tris, r= 45). Further, afer the one-month internal, there were snifeat practice eects. we consider the een scrss the five til then normal subjects showed aga of about 2 points Gh the seca test administration. [Normative Data ties (1960 reports norms based on samples of Swiss schoolchildren, aged 9-15. sors, Sift difeences were observed between males and females atthe ssovof 10a [1,3 that separate standardization had to be established for these ‘vhoely. Table 6-21 shows means and stndard deviations for each tal fr these tos soup. These values establish the average curves and standard deviations ATTENTION AND MEMORY TESTS ‘Table 6-21. RVDLT Mean Real ad Roogln Sone in Sujets Aged 15 Yer att Mom mar a a8 ae se wis Mr tg 1 9 le wus sion "3" Se SS Sy SK1m A COMPENDIUM OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS ‘hlle6ae AVOUT Penn Dri a =m = % a i Cn an : 8 fie rr pee RE REE GE » fa ; i: of epeasecestcecicesicns ye ; oon og eens i LE ET BB exert rentable treet and rthe tl acot eb Eb Seperate ne : a GEE Sabet insite mr deren ai a me & : $ » {Bout the normative samples and standardaton procedures. Moreover, er 2 ‘ 7 2 a 4 ‘onl and cultural ference tay make t hazardous to compare current North 7 $ o$ # 8k Se a a taverns ie ; Hy 3 i ae ata Beanery stadt and elder pone op 9 Tee a ete iy 2a =. Smal (n= 30}, and no flee of age were presented. Receaty, we compiledA. COMPENDIUM OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS -2t_RVDLT: Moan Real nd Reco Scores in Subjects Aged 20-84 pte so es es a aoe Th, te iu de ee 1B uk th fe te & ae igh k owns eae yo ae normative data from healthy adult volunters, aged 20-84, and hese dats are ‘Kown in Table 6-23. In general, scores for our subjects are slighty higher than ‘howe reported by Rey (196) In conta to the recall trials, performance onthe fcsnpition tri does 9 decline with age. This suggests that in the elderly. ‘Pashomotor impairments, and not memory deft, contibute to reduced perl. tance onthe drawing teas, Gres NE Siri F085 Vi etn Levan Te, Upahed ma ceo Uren of Va fA 060 samen Cn ex Pa hog, PPro Uta de sien Ee Spee, 0, Uopblibed a ATTENTION AND MEMORY TESTS a SENTENCE REPETITION Other Test Name “This tests also known as Sentence Memory Purpose “The purpose of this test isthe immediate oa epetition of sentences of increasing length Source “Tape, manual nd scoring forms canbe ordered fom the Neuropsychology Labo ‘ator, University of Vitoria Victoria, B.C. VBW SPS Canad, at cost of $15.00 Can Description The tert consists of two equivalent forms (A and B) of 23 tape-recorded sentences, Incresing in length from one ("Look") to 25 sylables (Riding his black horse, the general eam tothe scene ofthe battle and began shouting at his brave men’) (see Figure 6-19). Grammatical strocture and voeabulary have been held deliberately tovtimple, declarative tentences. The tet te part (est 5) ofthe Nevrosensory Comprehensive Examination for Aphasia (Spreen& Benton 1969, 1977). Benton sand Hamsher (183) use asia test with only 14 tems and with varying gran rratil complenty. Administration ‘The patient is seated about two meters fom a playback loudspeaker contained in cor connected witha tape recorder. Payback volume shouldbe set at comfortable hearing level approx. 70 db) and may be increased for hard-hearing patients Say “Tam going to play some sentences (point to loudspeaker. Listen carefully, tnd after youhave heard each sentence, repeatitas wells you can, Remember? listen carefully, and repeat the sentence right after you heard it” ‘Repeat instroctions i necesary and str tape reorder with Sentence Repet tion Form A. Osetsionally, the patent will not respond alter hearing the fist sentence, In this eae, stop the tpe and sy: "Would you repeat what you heard?” TF the patient responds, sty: “That ight. Do the same with each sentence you