Verbal Recognition Memory (VRM)
Overview
Despite the general desirability of non-verbal tests because of their culture free applicability, researchers and clinical studies sometimes require verbal tests, perhaps because of need to explore questions relating to language or left hemisphere function. Other verbal tests have a long history of use in psychiatric assessment and clinical studies. The Verbal Recognition Memory test, which assesses immediate and delayed memory of verbal information under free recall and forced choice recognition conditions, should provide comparable results.
Administration Time
Around 7 minutes.
Task
In the VRM test, the participant is shown a list of 12 words, one at a time, and then asked to:
- produce as many of the words as possible immediately following the presentation
- recognise the words they have seen before from a list of 24 words containing the original 12 words and 12 distractors
- following a delay of 20 minutes, recognise the words they have seen before from another list of 24 words containing the original list and 12 new distractors.
Outcome Measures
The five outcome measures for VRM cover correct and incorrect responses for the recognition and free recall parts of the test.
NOTE
Currently available in UK English only. Please contact us for information on translated versions of this task.
Test
Clinical mode and four parallel modes for repeated testing. Each mode has immediate and delayed parts.
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