A new approach in clinical neuropsychology to the assessment of spatial working memory: the block suppression test

J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2004 Feb;26(1):105-14. doi: 10.1076/jcen.26.1.105.23938.

Abstract

The Block Suppression Paradigm developed by Beblo, Klaver, Grubich, Wachowius, and Herrmann (1999) is based on the Corsi Block tapping test and requires that a subject reproduces every 2nd block in a given sequence. Results from two studies of a standardized version, the Block Suppression Test (BST), are presented here. In Study 1 the BST was administered to 48 healthy subjects along with a battery of comprehensive neuropsychological tests. The reliability of the BST proved satisfactory under psychometric analysis, while Principal Component Analysis (PCA) confirmed its validity. In Study 2 the BST was administered to a clinical sample of 31 brain-damaged patients to demonstrate its clinical practicability.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Attention
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intelligence
  • Male
  • Memory, Short-Term / physiology*
  • Mental Recall
  • Neuropsychological Tests*
  • Neuropsychology / methods*
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Psychometrics
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Serial Learning
  • Space Perception / physiology*
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Verbal Learning