title: Older adult norms for the Southern California Figure-Ground Visual Perception Test.
abstract: Older adult norms for men are provided for the Southern California Figure-Ground Visual Perception Test (FG; Ayres, 1966), based on the performance of 117 patients from a geriatric medicine and rehabilitation facility ranging in age from 40 to 77 years. Reasons are presented for administering the entire test rather than using the traditional cutoff. When comparing FG performance to norms of younger adults (Bieliauskas, Newberry, & Gerstenberger, 1988), results indicate that figure-ground discrimination is poorer in older individuals. The norms provided here serve to complement the previous study employing FG, and it is hoped that they will encourage its wider use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA. brad.roper@med.va.gov
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Roper
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fiengo
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Holker
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Bieliauskas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012016:Reference Values; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*