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Recent Development of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment
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Recent Development of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 4522

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sara Mondini

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1. Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
2. Human Inspired Technology Research Centre, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Interests: neurodegenerative progressive diseases (e.g., dementia); neuropsychology of aging; neuropsychological assessment and cognitive testing
Dr. Marinella Cappelletti

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1. Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Interests: numerical cognition; memory; executive functions; learning; individual differences; ageing; middle ageing; lifespan; non-invasive brain stimulation; EEG
Dr. Giorgio Arcara

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IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice, Italy
Interests: methodology of clinical neuropsychology; neuroscience of language; EEG; MEG

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the years, cognitive and neuropsychological assessments have been continuously developed and improved. Recently, such developments have significantly increased, with the support of technical innovation. A major drive in these changes has been the COVID-19 pandemic, which has boosted attention towards tele-neuropsychology and alternative solutions relative to traditional in-person assessments. In addition, the ‘replication crisis’ has crucially increased the need for appropriate and robust statistical inference. However, there are still many open issues that are debated—some old, some new: is remote assessment valid? Should we develop more ecological tests for neuropsychological assessment? Can new analytical methods (e.g., machine learning) contribute to developing clinical assessment?

This Special Issue collects contributions on aspects that address innovation in current cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and reviews on existing standards focusing on new directions, tools, or tests for assessment, as well as experimental studies that show how innovative approaches may uncover new perspectives.

Dr. Sara Mondini
Dr. Marinella Cappelletti
Dr. Giorgio Arcara
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • clinical neuropsychology
  • psychometrics
  • cognitive tests
  • scoring
  • cognitive functions
  • remote assessment
  • machine learning

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Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Pilot Study
by Kyriaki Neophytou, Kelly Williamson, Olivia Herrmann, Alexandros Afthinos, Jessica Gallegos, Nadine Martin, Donna C. Tippett and Kyrana Tsapkini
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(4), 391; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14040391 - 17 Apr 2024
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Background: This study aims to determine (a) if home-based anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) delivered to the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) coupled with verbal short-term memory/working memory (vSTM/WM) treatment (“RAM”, short for “Repeat After Me”) is more effective than sham-tDCS in improving [...] Read more.
Background: This study aims to determine (a) if home-based anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) delivered to the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) coupled with verbal short-term memory/working memory (vSTM/WM) treatment (“RAM”, short for “Repeat After Me”) is more effective than sham-tDCS in improving vSTM/WM in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and (b) whether tDCS effects generalize to other language and cognitive abilities. Methods: Seven PPA participants received home-based a-tDCS and sham-tDCS coupled with RAM treatment in separate conditions in a double-blind design. The treatment task required participants to repeat word spans comprising semantically and phonologically unrelated words in the same and reverse order. The evaluation of treatment effects was carried out using the same tasks as in the treatment but with different items (near-transfer effects) and tasks that were not directly related to the treatment (far-transfer effects). Results: A-tDCS showed (a) a significant effect in improving vSTM abilities, measured by word span backward, and (b) a generalization of this effect to other language abilities, namely, spelling (both real words and pseudowords) and learning (retention and delayed recall). Conclusions: These preliminary results indicate that vSTM/WM intervention can improve performance in trained vSTM/WM tasks in patients with PPA, especially when augmented with home-based tDCS over the left SMG. Full article
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PsycAssist: A Web-Based Artificial Intelligence System Designed for Adaptive Neuropsychological Assessment and Training
by Debora de Chiusole, Matilde Spinoso, Pasquale Anselmi, Alice Bacherini, Giulia Balboni, Noemi Mazzoni, Andrea Brancaccio, Ottavia M. Epifania, Matteo Orsoni, Sara Giovagnoli, Sara Garofalo, Mariagrazia Benassi, Egidio Robusto, Luca Stefanutti and Irene Pierluigi
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(2), 122; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14020122 - 24 Jan 2024
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Assessing executive functions in individuals with disorders or clinical conditions can be challenging, as they may lack the abilities needed for conventional test formats. The use of more personalized test versions, such as adaptive assessments, might be helpful in evaluating individuals with specific [...] Read more.
Assessing executive functions in individuals with disorders or clinical conditions can be challenging, as they may lack the abilities needed for conventional test formats. The use of more personalized test versions, such as adaptive assessments, might be helpful in evaluating individuals with specific needs. This paper introduces PsycAssist, a web-based artificial intelligence system designed for neuropsychological adaptive assessment and training. PsycAssist is a highly flexible and scalable system based on procedural knowledge space theory and may be used potentially with many types of tests. We present the architecture and adaptive assessment engine of PsycAssist and the two currently available tests: Adap-ToL, an adaptive version of the Tower of London-like test to assess planning skills, and MatriKS, a Raven-like test to evaluate fluid intelligence. Finally, we describe the results of an investigation of the usability of Adap-ToL and MatriKS: the evaluators perceived these tools as appropriate and well-suited for their intended purposes, and the test-takers perceived the assessment as a positive experience. To sum up, PsycAssist represents an innovative and promising tool to tailor evaluation and training to the specific characteristics of the individual, useful for clinical practice. Full article
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Broken Ring enVision Search (BReViS): A New Clinical Test of Attention to Assess the Effect of Layout and Crowding on Visual Search
by Alessio Facchin, Maura Simioni, Silvio Maffioletti and Roberta Daini
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(3), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13030494 - 15 Mar 2023
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The assessment of attention in neuropsychological patients could be performed with visual search tests. The Broken Rings enVision Search test (BReViS) here proposed represents a novel open access paper-and-pencil tool in which layout and crowding are varied among four cards. These manipulations allow [...] Read more.
The assessment of attention in neuropsychological patients could be performed with visual search tests. The Broken Rings enVision Search test (BReViS) here proposed represents a novel open access paper-and-pencil tool in which layout and crowding are varied among four cards. These manipulations allow the assessment of different components of attention: a selective component, the visuo-spatial orientation of attention, and the focal attention, involved in a crowding phenomenon. Our purpose was to determine the characteristics of the BReViS test, provide specific normative data, and assess these components across the lifespan. The test was administered to a sample of 550 participants aged between 20 and 79 years old and to a series of patients. Three indexes targeting different components of visuo-spatial attention (selective attention, strategic orientation of visual attention, focal attention) were obtained by combining execution times and accuracy together with the total errors. The results showed that age, education and gender influenced, in different combinations, the four indexes, for which specific norms were developed. Regression-based norms were provided in percentiles and equivalent scores. All patients showed pathological scores and specific patterns of attentional deficits. The BreViS test proved to be a free and easy valuable tool which can be used in the clinical environment to assess attentional deficits in neuropsychological patients. Full article
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