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Utility of the Seashore Tonal Memory Test in neuropsychological assessment.
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Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology [J Clin Exp Neuropsychol] 1985 Aug; Vol. 7 (4), pp. 367-74. - Publication Year :
- 1985
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Abstract
- This study assessed the diagnostic utility of the Seashore Tonal Memory Test in detecting and localizing cerebral lesions. A group of 238 subjects with focal or diffuse cerebral lesions and a group of 112 normal comparison subjects were administered the Seashore Tonal Memory Test and the Halstead-Reitan Battery. All brain-damaged subgroups did significantly worse than the normal group on the Tonal Memory Test. Patients with right-hemisphere lesions were more impaired on this test than were those with left-hemisphere lesions. In contrast, Seashore Rhythm Test scores were not significantly different for groups with right- versus left-hemisphere lesions. Tonal Memory performance was not found to be related to more precise location of structural lesions within the right hemisphere. Step-wise discriminate function analyses indicated that the Tonal Memory Test adds to the Halstead-Reitan Battery in discriminating left-hemisphere from right-hemisphere lesions and that, for this purpose, it was a better discriminator than all but one of the individual tests currently in the battery.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1380-3395
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 4031021
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638508401270