The Benton's Visual Retention Test in Adults with Brain Damage

Abstract

The visual memory and its alterations have been studied by the neuropsychologists as un indication of the presence of organic alterations of the brain and to measure the damage of the brain activity.

Following the studies of A. L. Benton, Wahler, Breidt, Von Kerekjarto, etc., the authors of this work have compared the behaviour of a group of brain damage adults, with a control group in the task of doing the Visual Retention Test of Benton, Form C, Administration. A, and they have found

statisticaly significant differences in the overall assessment of the test not only in the correc designes but in the mistakes mude in 60th test: the brain damaged group draw less drawings and make more errors than the control group. Those results agree with the ones of the authors previously mentioned and slow the validity of the test to detect brain damages.

At the sume time, the authors have found differences statisticaly significant, in 60th test, in the type of mistakes. The people with brain damage make more rotations, distortions and perseverantes than the control group. The results coincide with the ones of the authors mentioned and also can be said that rotations type shapes are the favorite organic figure.