Franzen S, et al. - In a population of low-educated non-Western immigrants, researchers tested the reliability and validity of the original version of the Visual Association Test (VAT), a test of visual association memory, and a modified version using colored photographs (mVAT) and compared performance on both tests. For this analysis, both the original VAT and the mVAT were given to 73 non-Western immigrants from two multicultural memory clinics in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as well as a control sample of14 non-demented Turkish elderly with low education levels. Findings suggested that both VAT and mVAT can differentiate people with from without dementia. In non-Western immigrants, the mVAT is a reliable and valid measure of memory. Clinicians and scientists should be conscious that immigrants' memory can be underestimated by using black-and-white line drawing tests, such as the original VAT. Higher scores were seen on the mVAT when parallel versions of the VAT and the mVAT were given to the same person.