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Block Design Test
The Block Design is a subtest of Perceptual Reasoning index of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV. The Block Design test measures spatial perception, visual abstract processing, and problem solving.

Definition contributed by DLau about two years ago.

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Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block design task?
Shah A, Frith U
(J Child Psychol Psychiatry)
1993 Nov
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Age related differences in the strategies used by middle aged adults to solve a block design task.
Rozencwajg P, Cherfi M, Ferrandez AM, Lautrey J, Lemoine C, Loarer E
(Int J Aging Hum Dev)
2005
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An fMRI-study of locally oriented perception in autism: altered early visual processing of the block design test.
Bölte S, Hubl D, Dierks T, Holtmann M, Poustka F
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) (J Neural Transm)
2008
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