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The Recognition Memory Task by Warrington consists of two recognition tasks. One is recognition of words and the other is recognition of faces. It takes approximately 15 min to administer.
Historical Background
The Recognition Memory Test was designed to quickly assess material-specific memory deficits. Both verbal and nonverbal memory are tested in order to allow clinicians to make judgments about lateralization of brain damage, right hemisphere versus left hemisphere. It has been criticized for poor reliability and poor specificity (see Sweet et al. 2000).
Psychometric Data
Normative data is included on 300 individuals aged 18–70 years in the test package provided by Western Psychological Services. Test-retest reliability for the faces subtest was reported to be 0.81, and validity was reported to be moderate (Soukup et al. 1999). The subtests have adequate internal consistency (Malina et al. 1998), but there is evidence of a significant ceiling effect on the words...
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Raskin, S.A. (2017). Warrington Recognition Memory Test. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1162-2
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