ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an approach to neuropsychological assessment that combines cognitive science with traditional psychometrics to form a type of assessment called the cognitive-metric approach. It attempts to apply the scientific rigor found in experimental neuropsychology to neuropsychological assessment. A secondary related theme is the application of objective scientific methods to test batteries as well as to individual tests. Objective psychometric methods related to individual tests have been well developed in psychology (Anastasi, 1988; Kline, 1986). By contrast, almost no effort in psychology has been devoted to the study of how tests are integrated in a battery Some beginnings of such a study are presented. As illustrative material, two computerized methods of scoring neuropsychological test batteries are examined.
