| This challenging test assesses visual memory and new learning, and is a useful tool for assessing patients with questionable dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and age-related memory loss. |
Administration time
Around 10 minutes, depending on level of impairment
Task
Boxes are displayed on the screen and are opened in a randomised order. One or more of them will contain a pattern. The patterns are then displayed in the middle of the screen, one at a time, and the subject must touch the box where the pattern was originally located. If the subject makes an error, the patterns are re-presented to remind the subject of their locations. The difficulty level increases through the test. In the clinical mode, the number of patterns increases from one to eight, which challenges even very able subjects.
Test modes
Clinical mode (for testing once); five parallel modes (for repeated testing).
Outcome measures
This test has twenty-one outcome measures, covering the errors made by the subject, the number of trials required to locate the pattern(s) correctly, memory scores and stages completed.
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