Benton Laboratory of Neuropsychology: Selected Tests

How to Order

• Visit this webpage to learn more about the manual and to order, Contributions to Neuropsychological Assessment. The manual contains descriptions of the tests along with normative and validity data. Or you may purchase the manual on this page.
• Purchase the individual tests here on this webpage or navigate to the individual test webpages to learn more. 

Temporal Orientation

The Temporal Orientation test assesses the accuracy of an individual's temporal orientation with relation to the day of the week, day of the month, month, year, and time of day. The test provides a standardized procedure, based on empirically established norms, for interpreting an individual's performance.

Right-Left Orientation

This 20-item Right-Left Orientation test requires an individual to point to lateral body parts on verbal command. Form B is a mirror image of Form A in which the commands are reversed. Administration time is 5 minutes.

Serial Digit Learning

This Serial Digit Learning test consists of the presentation of either eight or nine randomly selected single digits for a varying number of trials up to a maximum of 12. Three alternate versions are provided for each form. Administration requires 5-10 minutes.

Facial Recognition

A three-part standardized measure of the ability to match unfamiliar faces. The Facial Recognition test contains a 27-item short form and a 54-item long form.

Judgment Of Line Orientation

The Judgment Of Line Orientation is a standardized measure of visuospatial judgment in two alternate forms. The spiral-bound booklet contains 35 stimuli, five of which are practice items.

Visual Form Discrimination

The Visual Form Discrimination test measures the ability to discriminate between complex visual configurations and provides comparative data on clients with brain disease. Composed of 16 items ranging in level of difficulty, this brief, convenient procedure has proven utility because of its sensitivity to effects of brain disease.

Pantomime Recognition

The Pantomime Recognition test requires the client to point to drawings of objects; the pretended uses of the objects are shown in a series of 30 videotaped pantomimes.

Motor Impersistence

The Motor Impersistence battery consists of eight tests requiring the maintenance of a movement or posture: keeping eyes closed, protruding tongue (blindfolded and eyes open), fixation of gaze in lateral visual fields, keeping mouth open, central fixation during confrontation testing of visual fields, head turning during sensory testing, and saying "ah."