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In 1977 Erickson and Scott published a review of methods of memory assessment in clinical settings. Their conclusion was that the procedures then in common use, such as the Wechsler Memory Scale (Wechsler, 1945) and the Benton Visual Retention Test (Benton, 1974), were of limited clinical value. In particular, they found that undue emphasis had been placed on the ability of tests to discriminate between normal subjects and ill-defined groups of patients with various types of acquired brain damage. Other more clinically relevant issues, such as the exact nature of a patient’s memory deficit and the implications for rehabilitation, had been ignored. They suggested that future work be directed by two considerations. First, techniques from experimental studies of human memory should be incorporated into the clinical field so that clinical assessments could provide information on the location of the deficit within the memory process (encoding, retention, or retrieval). Second, the relevance of memory assessment of rehabilitation would be increased if new memory tests could be developed to predict the patient’s concurrent or future learning ability in everyday life.
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Sunderland, A. (1990). Clinical Memory Assessment: Matching the Method to the Aim. In: Tupper, D.E., Cicerone, K.D. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Assessment and Basic Competencies. Foundations of Neuropsychology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1503-2_7
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