Clinical Neuropsychology

Some of the diagnostic tools we (co-)developped ...

Social cognition: Normed non-verbal tasks to evaluate false belief reasoning

We have developped two nonverbal false belief tasks which, when jointly administrated, can detect theory of mind impairments in adults. The tasks were designed to identify deficits in the spontaneous tracking of other people's beliefs and deficits in self-perspective inhibition. Both tasks are available on Figshare (in a French and an English version).

Norms:

• Biervoye, Aurélie, Meert, Gaëlle, Apperly, Ian A., & Samson, Dana (2018). Assessing the integrity of the cognitive processes involved in belief reasoning by means of two nonverbal tasks: Rationale, normative data collection and illustration with brain-damaged patients. PLOS ONE, 13, e0190295. doi :10.1371/journal.pone.0190295

Spatial attention: the Apple Test

The test helps differentiating egocentric and allocentric spatial neglect.

• Bickerton, W. L., Samson, D., Williamson, J., & Humphreys, G. W. (2011). Separating forms of neglect using the Apples Test : Validation and functional prediction in chronic and acute stroke. Neuropsychology, 25(5), 567‑580. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023501

The Birmingham Cognitive Screen

A global cognitive screen assessing language, praxis, attention, executive function and memory.

• Bickerton, W.-L., Riddoch, M. J., Samson, D., Balani, A. B., Mistry, B., & Humphreys, G. W. (2012). Systematic assessment of apraxia and functional predictions from the Birmingham Cognitive Screen. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 83(5), 513‑521. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2011-300968

• Bickerton, W.-L., Demeyere, N., Francis, D., Kumar, V., Remoundou, M., Balani, A., Harris, L., Williamson, J., Lau, J. K., Samson, D., Riddoch, M. J., & Humphreys, G. W. (2015). The BCoS cognitive profile screen : Utility and predictive value for stroke. Neuropsychology, 29(4), 638‑648. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000160

• Humphreys, Glyn W. ; Bickerton, Wai-Ling ; Samson, Dana ; Riddoch, M. Jane. BCoS Cognitive Screen (1ere édition /. Psychology Press (2012) (ISBN:978-1848720992)