33. AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BLOCK DESIGN ROTATION EFFECT An Analysis of a Psychological Effect of Brain Damage

1958 ◽  
pp. 519-526
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Psychological Effect ◽  
Rotation Effect

Performance of Senile and Healthy Aged Persons on the Bip Bender Test

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Canter ◽  
John J. Straumanis
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Block Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Block Designs ◽  
Healthy Elderly ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Organic Brain

The standard Bender test and its repetition on Canter's BIP paper along with the WAIS Vocabulary and Block Designs were administered to 16 senile and 17 healthy elderly Ss. The defects of the senile Ss were clearly revealed by the tests but the conventional use of Bender error scores and the discrepancy between Vocabulary and Block Design scores would also identify at least a fourth of the healthy elderly as having mild to moderate deficit consistent with organic brain damage. On the other hand, the BIP reflected the normal perceptuomotor performance of the healthy Ss while retaining sensitivity to the degree of organicity of the senile Ss.

Experimental Studies of a Perceptual Anomaly. III. The Testing of an Explanatory Theory

1953 ◽  
Vol 99 (416) ◽  
pp. 394-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Rotation Effect ◽  
Explanatory Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject

This is the third of a series of articles reporting an investigation of the block design rotation effect. This effect is shown by some patients when they are doing the Kohs' Blocks Test, which is known in other forms as the Block Design Test. In this test the subject has to reproduce patterns with the aid of diversely coloured one-inch cubes. It was observed that some patients, while they reproduced these patterns correctly, left their blocks in an obviously rotated position, apparently with no idea that anything was amiss (see Illus tration i). Such rotation can often be as great as 45°.

A Hierarchical Analysis of Block Design Errors in Children With Early Focal Brain Damage

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Schatz ◽  
Angela O. Ballantyne ◽  
Doris A. Trauner
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Hierarchical Analysis

General Implications of the Block Design Rotation Effect

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Shapiro ◽  
H. R. Beech
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Rotation Effect

Experimental Studies of a Perceptual Anomaly

1958 ◽  
Vol 104 (436) ◽  
pp. 792-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Shapiro ◽  
Barbara Tizard
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Rotation Effect ◽  
The Subject

The experiment to be reported in this paper stems from previous work on the block design rotation effect (Shapiro, 2, 3, 4; Yates, 9, 10; Williams, Lubin et al., 7). As is well known, the block design test in its various forms: Kohs, Wechsler and Goldstein Scheerer, requires the subject to reproduce, with one-inch multi-coloured cubes, a series of abstract designs. It has been reported by a number of observers that subjects sometimes leave their reproductions in a rotated position, although otherwise the designs have been correctly reproduced.

scholarly journals A matter of quality: Kurt Goldstein‘s assessment of the abstract attitude after brain damage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Frisch ◽  
Alexandre Métraux
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Diagnostic Approach ◽  
Concrete Situation ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Kurt Goldstein

ABSTRACT Neurologist and psychiatrist Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) made substantial contributions to neuropsychology in general and to the development of tests for the assessment of brain damage sequelae in particular. Unlike present-day neuropsychology’s psychometric orientation, Goldstein kept a critical distance to a mere quantitative evaluation. Eighty years ago, he impressively demonstrated his own, qualitatively oriented diagnostic approach both in a remarkable monograph and in a didactic film, in collaboration with psychologist Martin Scheerer (1900-1961). By modifying a classical paradigm for the assessment of deficits in visuospatial construction, the Block Design Test, the two authors developed the Goldstein-Scheerer Cube Test. This version characterizes itself by offering the patient different types of cues in order to reveal the nature of the deficit at stake. The test remains an impressive illustration of Goldstein’s most famous neuropsychological concept, viz. the human ability to abstract from a concrete situation: the abstract (or categorial) attitude.

A Re-Examination of the Block Design Rotation Effect

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. D. John
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Angular Size ◽  
Rotation Effect ◽  
Rotation Test ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Supplementary Hypothesis

The performance of 10 normal Ss on a modification of Shapiro's (1952) Block Design Rotation Test has been assessed using two measures: (1) angular size of errors of orientation of the reproduced designs (error scores), and (2) amount of rotation of reproduced designs, i.e., taking into account both angular size and direction of errors of orientation (rotation scores). The results show that these two measures are differentially affected by the experimental variables operating in this situation and that what has been called the “block design rotation effect” does not reflect a tendency by Ss to rotate their reproductions in a particular direction. A supplementary hypothesis that the so-called block design rotation effect is related to the Poggendorf illusion was not supported by the findings.

Experimental Studies of a Perceptual Anomaly

1954 ◽  
Vol 100 (421) ◽  
pp. 975-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Rotation Effect ◽  
The Subject

This is the fourth of a series of articles reporting an investigation into the Block Design Rotation Effect. This effect was first observed in some patients while they were doing the Goldstein Block Design Test, in which the subject has to reproduce patterns with the aid of coloured cubes. Some patients, while completing the designs correctly, would leave the completed pattern in a rotated position without apparently being aware of this (2). Such rotation frequently reached 45° (Illustration 1) but rarely exceeded this amount.

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