Table 1.

MATRICS: provisional consensus cognitive battery

Parameter evaluated	Test to assess parameter in patients
Speed of processing	Category fluency
	Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS)—symbol-coding
	Trail making A
Attention/vigilance	Continuous Performance Test—identical pairs (CPT-IP)
Working memory	Verbal: University of Maryland—letter-number span
	Nonverbal: Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)—III spatial span
Verbal learning	Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT)—revised
Visual learning	Brief Visuospatial Memory Test (BVMT)—revised
Reasoning and problem solving	Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB)—mazes
Social cognition	Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)—managing emotions