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Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2016 May 4;28(3):309–351. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2016.1174718

Table 8.

Standardised visuo-spatial STM and WM tests (listed alphabetically by test type).

Test type Task & stimuli Studies and publication (test, author, year) N (participants with aphasia with whom test was used)
Shape Drawing – immediate recall Immediate drawing recall of figures Murray et al. (2006): Visual Reproduction (Wechsler, 1987) 1
Design Recognition Immediate recognition of complex geometric figures Helm-Estabrooks (2002): Design Memory of CLQT (Helm-Estabrooks, 2001) Kalbe et al. (2005): Nonverbal Memory of Aphasia Check List (Kalbe et al., 2005) Nicholas et al. (2005): Design Memory of CLQT (Helm-Estabrooks, 2001) 172
Visuo-spatial Span Visual serial forward and backward recall DeDe et al. (2014): Square Span (DeDe et al., 2014) Fucetola et al. (2006): WMS-III (Wechsler, 1997) Fucetola et al. (2009): WMS-III (Wechsler, 1997) Kasselimis et al. (2013): Block Tapping (Kessels et al., 2008) Lang and Quitz (2012): WMS-R (Härting et al., 2000)a Lee and Pyun (2014): Computerised Neurocognitive Test (MaxMedica, Seoul, Korea) Mayer and Murray (2002): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Murray et al. (2006): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Murray (2012b): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Salis (2012): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) 365
Visual Elevator Working memory/updating, attentional switching with pictograms Chiou and Kennedy (2009): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) Coelho et al. (2005): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) Lee and Sohlberg (2013): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) Mayer and Murray (2002): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) Murray et al. (2006): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) Murray (2012b): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) Sinotte and Coelho (2007): TEA (Robertson et al., 1994) 61
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These tests were not evaluated in terms of quality as they were unobtainable.

CLQT = Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test; WMS-III = Wechsler Memory Scale 3rd Edition; WMS-R = Wechsler Memory Scale – Revised; TEA = Test of Everyday Attention.