Trojano L, Angelini R, Gallo P, Grossi D
Salvatore Maugeri Foundation-IRCCS, Rebabilitation Center of Campoli M.T. BN, Italy.
Percept Mot Skills. 1997 Aug;85(1):51-7. doi: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.1.51.
We describe a simple, three-dimensional constructional test (the Box test), which reflects common daily-living activities, to be used for the assessment of constructional disability in elderly brain-lesioned patients. Subjects are required to put as may of 12 objects of varied shape and volume as they can into a box. To carry out the task successfully subjects have to arrange the items according to an efficient constructional strategy. We administered this test to 68 normal subjects and to 50 brain-damaged patients. Analysis indicated the Box test is easy and simple to administer and can be used without difficulty by elderly patients having focal brain damage. Performance correlated well with general intelligence and other bidimensional, conventional constructional tasks. Right or left brain lesions have a similar, significant detrimental effect on performance but probably through different mechanisms.
我们描述了一种简单的三维结构测试（盒子测试），该测试反映了常见的日常生活活动，用于评估老年脑损伤患者的结构障碍。要求受试者将12个形状和体积各异的物体尽可能多地放入一个盒子中。为了成功完成任务，受试者必须根据有效的结构策略来摆放物品。我们对68名正常受试者和50名脑损伤患者进行了这项测试。分析表明，盒子测试易于实施，有局灶性脑损伤的老年患者可以毫无困难地使用。测试表现与一般智力以及其他二维传统结构任务密切相关。右脑或左脑损伤对测试表现有类似的显著不利影响，但可能是通过不同的机制。
