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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2008 May 7;64(1):4–10. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.03.020

Table 2.

Pre-meeting Web Survey Based Ratings of Cognitive Constructs

All RESPONDENTS (N=110)
1=Does not meet this criteria; 2=Meets this criteria somewhat; 3=Meets this criteria moderately; 4=Meets this criteria very well; 5=Meets this criteria extremely well
Candidate Cognitive Mechanisms for Second Survey
(Number of people who said not enough information to judge in parentheses)
Readily measured in humans Strong evidence of impairment in schizophrenia Clarity of the link to a specific neural circuit Clarity of the understanding of the cognitive system or mechanisms Availability of an explicit animal model Link to neural systems through neuropsychopharmacology Measures practically amenable for use in human imaging studies Linked to functional outcome in schizophrenia
Perception Mean/Median/Mode
 ICC 0.77 0.76 0.91 0.94 0.95 0.73 0.76 0.77
 Visual Motion Processing 4.4–5–5 (8) 3.4–3.5–4 (26) 3.7–4–4 (12) 3.5–4–4 (13) 3.4–4–4 (22) 2.4–2–3 (31) 4.1–4–5 (13) 1.9–2–1 (39)
 Visual Form Processing 4.3–4–5 (9) 2.7–3–2 (21) 3.4–3–3 (13) 3.3–3–3 (14) 3.1–3–3 (17) 2.2–2–2 (27) 4.1–4–4 (15) 2.0–2–1 (39)
 Visual Feature Binding 3.7–4–4 (18) 2.8–3–3 (30) 2.7–3–3 (21) 2.8–3–3 (20) 2.3–2–2 (29) 2.1–2–2 (32) 3.3–3–4 (23) 2.1–2–1 (46)
 Gestalt Processing 3.8–4–4 (18) 3.0–3–3 (33) 2. 0–2–2 (26) 2.3–2–2 (21) 1.7–1–1 (28) 1.7–1 - 1 (30) 3.1–3–3 (23) 2.2–2–1 (47)
 Auditory Perception 4.5–5–5 (3) 3.4–3–3 (13) 3.7–4–4 (7) 3.5–4–4 (9) 3.1–3–4 (11) 2.5–2–2 (17) 3.8–4–4 (5) 2.4 –2–3 (30)
Working Memory
 ICC 0.70 0.10 0.79 0.87 0.93 0.91 0.75 0.76
 Storage 4.6–5–5 (6) 4.0–4–5 (9) 3.7–4–4 (8) 3.7–4–4 (7) 3.7–4–4 (10) 3.5–4–4 (11) 4.4–5–5 (7) 3.5–4–4 (7)
 Updating 4.2–4–5 (14) 4.0–4–4 (20) 3.2–3–3 (16) 3.2–3–3 (11) 2.9–3–3 (21) 3.0–3–3 (22) 3.9–4–4 (16) 3.2–3–3 (40)
 Manipulation 4.2–4–5 (11) 4.1–4–5 (16) 3.4–4–4 (11) 3.2–3–4 (11) 2.8–3–3 (16) 2.9–3–3 (18) 4.0–4–5 (11) 3.4–4–4 (33)
 Control Processing 4.0–4–5 (7) 4.0–4–4 (12) 3.3–3–3 (11) 3.1–3–3 (9) 2.7–3–2 (15) 2.7–3–3 (19) 3.8–4–5 (10) 3.5–4–4 (27)
Long-term Learning and Memory
 ICC 0.73 0.92 0.77 0.68 0.94 0.91 0.61 0.84
 Encoding 4.5–5–5 (5) 4. 0–4–5 (9) 3.6–4–4 (5) 3.5–4–4 (5) 3.5–4–4 (6) 3.4–3–4 (9) 4.1–4–4 (5) 3.5–3.5–3 (17)
 Retrieval 4.5–5–5 (3) 3.6–4–4 (7) 3.4–3–3 (4) 3.3–3–3 (5) 3.3–3–3 (7) 3.1–3–3 (12) 3.9–4–4 (5) 3.5–4–4 (19)
 Source Memory 4.2–4–5 (10) 3.4–3–3 (19) 2.9–3–3 (14) 2.9–3–3 (12) 2.2–2–2 (6) 2.2–2–2 (18) 3.7–4–3 (12) 2.7–3–2 (31)
 Strategy Gen and App 3.7–4–3 (7) 3.9–4–4 (15) 2.6–3–3 (12) 2.7–3–3 (12) 1.9–2–1 (18) 2.1–2–2 (21) 3.2–3–3 (9) 3.3–3–3 (25)
 Recollection 4.3–5–5 (7) 3.5–3–3 (16) 3.0–3–3 (10) 3.0–3–3 (9) 2.4–2–2 (11) 2. 5–2–2 (16) 3.7–4–3 (7) 3.1–3–3 (27)
 Familiarity 4.0–4–4 (9) 2.4–2–2 (26) 2.7–2.5 –2 (15) 2.8–3–2 (14) 2.4–2–2 (19) 2.1–2–2 (23) 3.6–4–4 (12) 2.3–2–2 (36)
 Semantic Memory/Representations 4.4–5–5 (4) 3.4–4–4 (11) 2.8–3–3 (7) 3.0–3–3 (8) 1.7–1–1 (12) 2–2–2 (15) 3.9–4–4 (6) 2.9–3–3 (28)
 Semantic Priming 4.3–5–5 (5) 3.2–3–3 (16) 2.7–2–2 (12) 2.9–3–2 (9) 1.6–1–1 (12) 2.0–2–2 (17) 3.8–4–4 (6) 2.3–2–2 (32)
 Reinforcement based learning 4.2–4–5 (4) 2.8–3–3 (18) 3.2–3–3 (6) 3.3–3–4 (5) 4.1–4–4 (4) 3.6–4–4 (7) 3.7–4–4 (8) 2.3–2–2 (32)
Attention
 ICC 0.69 0.93 0.86 0.79 0.82 0.78 0.64 0.19
 Attention Shifting 4.4–5—5 (2) 4.0–4–4 (4) 3.4–3–3 (4) 3.4–3–3 (3) 3.3–3–4 (6) 3.2–3–3 (8) 4.0–4–4 (3) 3.3–3–3 (18)
 Selection Under Distraction 4.3–5–5 (4) 3.9–4–4 (8) 3.0–3–3 (8) 3.2–3–3 (7) 3. 0–3–2 (11) 2.8–3–2 (12) 3.9–4–4 (6) 3.1–3–3 (24)
 Preparatory Attention 4.0–4–5 (6) 3.2–3–3 (20) 3.0–3–3 (16) 2.9–3–3 (11) 2.9–3–3 (14) 2.8–3–2 (17) 3.6–4–3 (9) 2.8–2.5–2 (34)
Executive Control
 ICC 0.58 0.82 0.94 0.92 0.91 0.88 0.92 0.73
 Set-Shifting 4.4–5–5 (1) 4.2–4–5 (5) 3.4–3–3 (4) 3.4–4–4 (4) 3.4–3–3 (7) 3.2–3–3 (9) 4.1–4–4 (4) 3.5–3–3 (14)
 Sequencing 4.0–4–5 (9) 3.2–3–3 (17) 2.7–3–3 (13) 2.8–3–3 (12) 2.4–2–2 (16) 2.2–2–2 (19) 3.5–4–4 (11) 2.7–2.5–2 (27)
 Conflict Monitoring 4.1–4–5 (9) 3.4–3–3 (16) 3.4–4–4 (10) 3.3–4–4 (10) 2.7–3–2 (15) 2.5–2–2 (15) 3.9–4–4 (11) 2.8–3–2 (27)
 Conflict Resolution 3.6–4–4 (14) 3.0–3–3 (25) 2.8–3–3 (14) 2.7–2–2 (15) 2.3–2–2 (19) 2.2–2–2 (21) 3.2–3–3 (14) 2.5–2–2 (34)
 Meta-Cognition 3.3–3–3 (9) 3.4–3–3 (17) 1.8–2–2 (14) 2.0–2–2 (13) 1.3–1–1 (17) 1.4–1–1 (19) 2.5–2–2 (10) 2.8–3–2 (32)
 Planning 3.7–4–5 (3) 3.8–4–4 (6) 2.7–3–3 (6) 2.7–3–3 (6) 2.2–2–2 (11) 2.1–2–2 (12) 3.2–3–3 (5) 3.3–3–4 (18)
Social Cognitive Processing
 ICC 0.93 0.86 0.94 0.86 0.76 0.86 0.70 0.41
 Facial Affect Recognition 4.4–5–5 (2) 3.6–4–4 (10) 3.2–3–3 (4) 3.1–3–3 (5) 2.1–2–1 (11) 2.0–2–2 (11) 4.2–4–5 (5) 2.9–3–2 (23)
 Emotion Regulation 3.3 –3–3 (10) 3.0–3–2 (23) 2.5–2–2 (18) 2.5–2–2 (17) 1.6–1–1 (19) 1.9–2–2 (19) 3.0–3–3 (12) 2.7–3–2 (32)
 Emotion: Decision & Memory 3.4–3–3 (8) 2.7–2–2 (24) 2.5–2–2 (14) 2.5–2–2 (14) 1.9–2–1 (20) 2.0–2–2 (18) 3.2–3–3 (11) 2.3–2–2 (31)
 Theory of Mind 3.5–4–3 (6) 3.3–3–4 (12) 2.1–2–2 (10) 2.1–2–2 (9) 1.4–1 –1 (19) 1.3–1–1 (17) 3.1–3–3 (12) 2.7–3–2 (34)