The CVMT utilizes a task format that increases task sensitivity and reduces the confounding influence of verbal encoding strategies. It eliminates the motor responses required by drawing tasks and restricts the verbal labeling required by tests that use simplistic geometric figures and common objects.
Three tasks help assess visual memory:
• Acquisition: tests recognition memory by asking the respondents to discriminate "new" from "repeated" stimuli using 112 designs presented at two-second intervals.
• Delayed Recognition: measures retrieval from long-term storage, after a 30 minute delay, by distinguishing "old" stimuli from perceptually-similar stimuli.
• Visual Discrimination: distinguishes Visual Discrimination deficits from Visual Memory problems.
Ages: 7 through 80 years
Administration: Individual; 45-50 minutes
(CVMT) Continuous Visual Memory Test
Alan S. Kaufman I Nadeen L. Kaufman
