ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the 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. The cognitive-metric approach has developed out of the advances and controversies in neuropsychology as well as cognitive psychology. From the inception of neuropsychology assessment, the primary controversy has been between the qualitative, now championed by the process approach, and the quantitative or psychometric approach. The primary principle of the cognitive-metric approach is the belief that the same scientific rigor found in experimental methodology should characterize neuropsychological assessment. The test measurement system, embodied in a neuropsychological battery, applies quantitative methods to examination procedures. The aim of neuropsychological research is to determine both the existence and characteristics of brain functions. The chapter examines the illustrative material, two computerized methods of scoring neuropsychological test batteries.
