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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2010 Mar 11;72(3):239–252. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181d14633

Table 2.

Classification of neurocognitive tests by domain

Neurocognitive Domain
Attention Executive Function Working Memory Memory
Accuracy Index
Complex / Choice RT
d2 Test of Attention
Digit Matching RTe
Digit Symbol Substitution Test
Mental Speed
Paced Auditory Serial Attention
 Test (PASAT)
Picture Arrangement
Premotor Time
Response Compatibility RT
Ruff 2 & 7 Test (Letters)
Simple RT
Single / Choice Time Sharing
Spatial Attention Task
Speed of Movement
Stopping Task RT
Stroop Color
Stroop Word
Task Switching RT
Trail Making Test Part A
Visuospatial Cognitive
Performance Test
Word Copying Speed
Attentional Flexibility
Categorical Fluency (Animal Naming)
Cattell’s Matrices
Cognitive Flexibility
Covert Orienting of Attention Task
Go-No-Go Test
Mental Control
Nonverbal Fluency Test
Number Copying Speed
RIPA Organization
RIPA Problem Solving
RIPA Abstract Reasoning
Ruff 2 & 7 Test (Digits)
Selective Reminding Intrusions
Set Shifting Ability
Stopping Task
Stroop Color/Word or Interference
Trail Making Test Part B
Useful Field of View
Verbal Fluency Test (FAS)
WAIS Similarities
Wisconsin Card Sorting Task
Digit Span
N-Back Spatial Task
N-Back Task
Self-Ordered Pointing
Visual Memory span
WAIS Letter Number
 Sequencing
ADAS Word List Recall
Auditory Verbal Learning Test

Benton Visual Retention Test
CERAD delayed recall
RAVLT
RAVLT Delay
RAVLT, Temporal Order
RBMT faces
RBMT pictures
RIPA Auditory Processing
RIPA Immediate Memory
RIPA Recent Memory
Sternberg Memory Search Task
 Y-intercept
Sternberg Memory Search Task, Slope
Visual and Verbal Memory Test
Visual Reproduction, Immediate
Visual Reproductions
VLMT Delayed Recall
VLMT Direct Recall
VLMT Recognition
WMS Facial Recognition
WMS Figural Memory, Immediate
WMS Figural Memory, Delayed
WMS Logical Memory, Immediate
WMS Logical Memory, Delayed
WMS Verbal Paired Associates
WMS Visual Reproduction

ADAS = Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale; CERAD = Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease; PASAT = Paced Auditory Serial Attention Test; RAVLT = Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Task; RBMT = Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test; RIPA = Ross Information Processing Test; RT = reaction time; VLMT = Verbal Learning and Memory Test; WMS = Wechsler Memory Scale; WAIS = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.