The VESPAR is a test of reasoning designed to measure fluid intelligence in neurological patients with more accuracy than has hitherto been possible. It comprises six sections: three matched sets of verbal and spatial reasoning problems, each dedicated to one of three forms of inductive reasoning - odd one out, analogy, and series completion.
The VESPAR overcomes the constraints of classical tests of reasoning by using simple stimuli that are more readily accessed by patients who have suffered physical or cognitive impairments as a result of neurological illness. It does so by not timing...