Loring and Bauer note that the conormed Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales and the Wechsler Memory Scales are the two most common psychological tests used in clinical care and research in neurology. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition released in 2008 is the most current edition of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales dating from the initial Wechsler-Bellevue first published in 1939. In addition, the Cancellation subtest was sensitive to verbal search strategies and perhaps object-based attention demands, thereby constituting a unique task in comparison with previous visual search tasks. Cancellation was sensitive to left frontotemporal lesions and not right posterior parietal lesions typical of
In contrast, the Figure Weights task appears to critically involve the right temporoparietal junction involved in numerical magnitudeĮstimation.
Left temporoparietal junction could be involved in temporal ordering and integration of local elements into a nonverbal gestalt. It appeared that Visual Puzzles could also critically rely on the integrity of the left temporoparietal junction. The pattern of results on Visual Puzzles andįigure Weights suggested that both subtests involve predominately right frontoparietal networks involved in visual working The clinicalĬase method was used to determine the cognitive neuropsychological correlates of mental rotation (Visual Puzzles), Piagetianīalance beam (Figure Weights), and visual search (Cancellation) tasks. Were large and typically involved frontal, temporal, and/or parietal lobes and were lateralized to one hemisphere. Memory Scale-Fourth Editions along with a comprehensive battery of other neuropsychological tasks. In this study, five consecutive patients with focal strokes and/or cortical excisions were examined with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and Wechsler