Neuropsychological tests consistently have shown that alcoholics suffer from persistent deficits in visuospatial cognition (Beatty et al., 1996; Oscar-Berman and Schendan, 2000; Sullivan et al., 2000b; Sullivan et al., 2002b; Fama et al., 2004; Fein et al., 2006; Sullivan et al., 2010). Early demonstrations of these deficits in alcoholics were apparent as relatively lower scores on Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Performance subtests compared to Verbal subtests (reviewed by Ellis and Oscar-Berman, 1989). This discrepancy was largely accounted for by scores on three of the individual Performance subtests, which relied strongly on visuospatial cognitive capacities: Block Design, Object Assembly, and Digit Symbol. Other examples of tests on which alcoholics have performed poorly are the Wechsler Memory Scale Drawing Test (Sullivan et al., 2000b), a letter/symbol cancellation test (Beatty et al., 1996), the Mental Rotation Test (Beatty et al., 1996), the Hidden Figures Test (Sullivan et al., 2000b; Fama et al., 2004), the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (Beatty et al., 1996; Sullivan et al., 2000b), and the Gollin Incomplete Pictures Test (Sullivan et al., 2000b; Fama et al., 2004). These tests clearly
