Description
The Purdue Pegboard (PP) is a test of uni- and bimanual dexterity. It is manufactured by Lafayette Instrument Company and is available through them and Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. The rectangular board consists of four wells horizontally aligned across the top. The two outer wells contain pegs, while the two middle wells contain washers and collars each that fit around the pegs. The board itself has two parallel sets of 25 holes vertically arranged.
The task in general requires examinees to take one peg at a time from the same side well as the hand being used and place it into the vertically arranged holes (on the same side of the well) from top to bottom as quickly as possible. Another task requires examinees to build “assemblies” that consist of a peg with a washer on the peg followed by a collar and then another washer on top of the collar. The standard administration requires 30 s per trial. There are commonly three conditions: first the dominant hand,...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences and Readings
Buddenberg, L. A., & Davis, C. (2000). Test-retest reliability of the Purdue Pegboard Test. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 54, 555–558.
Costa, L. D., Vaughan, H. G., Levita, E., & Farber, N. (1963). Purdue Pegboard as a predictor of the presence and laterality of cerebral lesions. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 27, 133–137.
Flieshman, E. A., & Hempel Jr., W. E. (1954). A factor analysis of dexterity tests. Personnel Psychology, 7, 15–32.
Judge, J., & Stirling, J. (2003). Fine motor skill performance in left- and right-handers: Evidence of an advantage for left-handers. Laterality, 8, 297–306.
Lezak, M. D., Dowieson, D. B., & Loring, D. W. (2004). Neuropsychological assessment (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
Peters, M., Servos, P., & Day, R. (1990). Marked sex differences on a fine motor skill task disappear when finger size is used as a covariate. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 87–90.
Reddon, J. R., Gill, D. M., Gauk, S. E., & Maerz, M. D. (1998). Purdue Pegboard: Test-retest estimates. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 66, 503–506.
Strauss, E., Sherman, E. M. S., & Spreen, O. (2006). A compendium of neuropsychological tests: Administration, norms, and commentary (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford.
Strenge, H., Niederberger, U., & Seelhorst, U. (2002). Correlation between tests of attention and performance on grooved and Purdue Pegboards in normal subjects. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 95, 507–514.
Tiffin, J., & Asher, E. J. (1948). The Purdue Pegboard: Norms and studies of reliability and validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 32, 234–247.
Triggs, W. J., Calvano, R., Levine, M., Heaton, R. K., & Heilman, K. M. (2000). Predicting hand preference with performance on motor tests. Cortex, 36, 679–689.
Verdino, M., & Dingman, S. (1998). Two measures of laterality in handedness: The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory and the Purdue Pegboard Test of manual dexterity. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 86, 476–478.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
Podell, K. (2018). Purdue Pegboard. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_207
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_207
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-57110-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-57111-9
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and PsychologyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences