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Immediate and delayed recall norms for the Butcher Story paragraph recall test with a disabled population
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Abstracts/Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 15 (2000) 653-850
in a general neuropsychological sample. Subjects were 65 patients (34 men, 31 women) seen for neuropsychological evaluation on an outpatient basis. Diagnoses included dementia, cerebrovascular accident, tumor, traumatic brain injury, other neurological conditions, general medical illness, and nonpsychotic psychiatric illness. Each was administered the CVMT, Facial Recognition Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Trail Making Test, and Digit Span as part of a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery. A principal components analysis was performed on these measures and CVMT scores. A 3-factor solution was obtained that accounted for 63% of the variance in these measures. The first factor was an executive functions factor (WCST Perseverative Errors, Preservative Responses, Trails A, Trails B,) a visual memory/visuoperceptive factor (CVMT Total, dS, and Delay, FRT) and an attention factor (WCST Loss of Set, Digit Span Forward and Digit Span Backward). Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Perseverative Errors, Trails B, Facial Recognition Test, Digit Span Backwards, and age were used in a hierarchical regression to predict CVMT acquisition and delay scores. The CVMT acquisition measures (Total Score, dS) were predicted by the combination of WCST Perseverative Errors and visuopercepfive (FRT) performance. Performance on the CVMT delayed recognition measure was primarily accounted for by age. The results provide additional information concerning factors that influence CVMT performance and are consistent with previous research regarding role of executive functions in visual recognition memory tasks. If successfully replicated, these findings would have implications for interpretation of CVMT performance in clinical neuropsychological assessment.
Immediate and delayed recall norms for the Butcher Story paragraph recall test with a disabled population House AE. The Butcher Story (Othmer and Othmer, 1989) offers an interesting task to assess paragraph recall and allows the examiner to evaluate certain elements of oral comprehension at the same time. Due to the origins of the Butcher Story in the context of mental status evaluations, little normative data has been available. The present study looked at the paragraph recall of 100 applicants to a department of disability who responded to the Butcher Story immediately before and after being tested with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test-Third Edition (WAIS-III). The use of the WAIS-III as the interpolated experience standardized certain aspects of the delay interval. It also corresponds to a pattern of use that might frequently be seen in neuropsychological testing. Immediate and delayed recall performance on the Butcher Story, as well as Butcher Story recall across age and intelligence groups, are presented. Consistent with previous work using the Butcher Story before and after the WAIS-R, this measure of verbal recall appears to be a useful, brief screen.
Inter-relationships among physicians' estimates of memory functioning and brief measures of cognitive functioning Barkemeier CA, Callon EB, Stevens B. This study examined the relationships between estimates of memory impairment and several brief standardized measures. It also examined the relationships among those standardized measures as well as age and education. Subjects were 53 neurology clinic outpatients in a public hospital. They were aged 21-72, with 2 - 1 8 years of education. Medical residents made numerical estimates of memory impairment for 30 of the subjects based solely on the patients' participation in their neurological examinations. Patients were examined independently by a neuropsychologist. Measures were the
Abstracts/Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 15 (2000) 653-850
in a general neuropsychological sample. Subjects were 65 patients (34 men, 31 women) seen for neuropsychological evaluation on an outpatient basis. Diagnoses included dementia, cerebrovascular accident, tumor, traumatic brain injury, other neurological conditions, general medical illness, and nonpsychotic psychiatric illness. Each was administered the CVMT, Facial Recognition Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Trail Making Test, and Digit Span as part of a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery. A principal components analysis was performed on these measures and CVMT scores. A 3-factor solution was obtained that accounted for 63% of the variance in these measures. The first factor was an executive functions factor (WCST Perseverative Errors, Preservative Responses, Trails A, Trails B,) a visual memory/visuoperceptive factor (CVMT Total, dS, and Delay, FRT) and an attention factor (WCST Loss of Set, Digit Span Forward and Digit Span Backward). Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Perseverative Errors, Trails B, Facial Recognition Test, Digit Span Backwards, and age were used in a hierarchical regression to predict CVMT acquisition and delay scores. The CVMT acquisition measures (Total Score, dS) were predicted by the combination of WCST Perseverative Errors and visuopercepfive (FRT) performance. Performance on the CVMT delayed recognition measure was primarily accounted for by age. The results provide additional information concerning factors that influence CVMT performance and are consistent with previous research regarding role of executive functions in visual recognition memory tasks. If successfully replicated, these findings would have implications for interpretation of CVMT performance in clinical neuropsychological assessment.
Immediate and delayed recall norms for the Butcher Story paragraph recall test with a disabled population House AE. The Butcher Story (Othmer and Othmer, 1989) offers an interesting task to assess paragraph recall and allows the examiner to evaluate certain elements of oral comprehension at the same time. Due to the origins of the Butcher Story in the context of mental status evaluations, little normative data has been available. The present study looked at the paragraph recall of 100 applicants to a department of disability who responded to the Butcher Story immediately before and after being tested with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test-Third Edition (WAIS-III). The use of the WAIS-III as the interpolated experience standardized certain aspects of the delay interval. It also corresponds to a pattern of use that might frequently be seen in neuropsychological testing. Immediate and delayed recall performance on the Butcher Story, as well as Butcher Story recall across age and intelligence groups, are presented. Consistent with previous work using the Butcher Story before and after the WAIS-R, this measure of verbal recall appears to be a useful, brief screen.
Inter-relationships among physicians' estimates of memory functioning and brief measures of cognitive functioning Barkemeier CA, Callon EB, Stevens B. This study examined the relationships between estimates of memory impairment and several brief standardized measures. It also examined the relationships among those standardized measures as well as age and education. Subjects were 53 neurology clinic outpatients in a public hospital. They were aged 21-72, with 2 - 1 8 years of education. Medical residents made numerical estimates of memory impairment for 30 of the subjects based solely on the patients' participation in their neurological examinations. Patients were examined independently by a neuropsychologist. Measures were the