PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Ken Wilber, Clock Face, Frontotemporal Dementia
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In general, the more complex the constructional test, the less likely it is that specific deficit can be identified: the concept of constructional functions embraces two large classes of activities; Building/assembling: patients with right hemisphere dysfunction tend to take a piecemeal fragmented approach, losing the overall (cid:498)gestalt(cid:499) of the constructional task. Important to consider demographic factors such as age and education when interpreting performance on copying tasks as older demographics may have more difficulty copying more complex objects (detailed bike, house with fence, etc. Finger tapping test (ftt) (test: most widely used test of manual dexterity and was called the finger. It consists of a tapping key with a device for recording the number of taps. Each hand makes five 10-sec trials with brief rest periods between trials. The score for each hand is the average for each set of five trials: variations in finger tapping instruments can result in significant performance differences.
