Comment on "Bender Gestalt Discernment of organic pathology."

Bender Gestalt (BG) literature, reviewed by Billingslea (1963), leads to ambiguity concerning the usefulness of BG in discerning organic brain pathology. Some ambiguity seems to stem from inadequate realization by many authors of the importance of locus of brain pathology in selecting Ss and interpreting results. Also, much BG work involving recall seems unrealistically simplified in its view of memory, leading to faulty design and contradictory results. This note reviews knowledge of parietal lobe function necessary to thoughtful BG study and cites findings which cast doubt on some assumptions underlying recall methods used in BG studies. Implications bearing on diagnostic interpretations of BG results are discussed. (27 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)