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The BEVPS: A new test battery to assess visual perceptual and spatial processing abilities in 5-14 year-old children

Emilie Schmetz1, Laurence Rousselle1, Cécile Ballaz2

  • 1a Neuropsychology Unit, Psychology Department, Cognition and Behaviour , FAPSE (Ulg), Reference Centre for Cerebral Palsy Ulg , Liège , Belgium.

Applied Neuropsychology. Child
|June 21, 2017
PubMed

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The new BEPS test battery reliably assesses visual object recognition and spatial processing in children aged 5-14. Performance improves with age, particularly for object recognition tasks.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Object recognition models, like Humphreys and Riddoch's, delineate distinct processing stages.
  • Assessing visual perceptual development in children requires age-appropriate and valid tools.
  • Existing measures may not fully capture the nuances of early visual processing stages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the age sensitivity, internal consistency, theoretical validity, and convergent validity of the new computerized battery of visual perceptual tests (BEVPS).
  • To examine visual perceptual object recognition and basic visual spatial processing in typically developing children.
  • To validate the BEVPS against established models and measures of visual perception.

Main Methods:

  • 179 French-speaking children (5-14 years) completed 15 computerized subtests from the BEVPS.
  • Age sensitivity was assessed using correlation and ceiling effect analyses.
  • Exploratory factorial analysis identified underlying constructs within the BEVPS.
  • Convergent validity was examined using correlations with the Beery-VMI visual perception subtest.

Main Results:

  • Three factors emerged: basic features (F1), object representations (F2), and spatial processing (F3).
  • BEVPS subtests demonstrated good-to-excellent internal consistency.
  • Performance on F1 and F2 (object recognition) improved with age until 9-12 years.
  • No significant age progression was found for F3 (spatial processing).
  • F1 and F2 showed convergent validity with the Beery-VMI, unlike F3.

Conclusions:

  • The BEVPS is a reliable and theoretically valid tool for assessing visual perceptual processing in children.
  • The battery effectively differentiates age-related changes in object recognition but not spatial processing.
  • Findings support the multi-stage nature of visual object recognition as proposed by Humphreys and Riddoch's model.

Keywords:
Childdevelopmentobject recognitionvisual perceptual processes

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