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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2010 Apr 3;33(1):21–34. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.02.009

Table 2.

Cognitive battery of neuropsychological tests administered

Neuropsychological tests Domain Test scores
Executive interview (EXIT) (Royall et al., 1992) Executive function High = poor performance
Finger tapping (Halstead, 1947) Fine motor speed Number of finger taps
Grooved pegboard (Matthews and Klove, 1964) Fine visual-motor coordination Time to completion
Letter fluency (Ruff et al., 1989) Semantic memory Total words for F+A+S
Letter-number span (Wechsler, 1997) Working memory Total numbers and letters
Letter cancellation test (Geldmacher et al., 2000) Visuospatial attention/scanning Time to completion
Trail-making test (A and B) (Reitan and Wolfson, 1985) Flexibility Ratio TrailsB/TrailsA
Stroop neuropsychological screening test (Trenerry, 1989) Set shifting/response suppression Ratio score
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) (Gold et al., 1999; Hobart et al., 1999) All RBANS scores are total scores
 List learning Verbal memory/encoding
 Story memory Verbal memory/encoding
 Figure copy Visuospatial constructional
 Line orientation Visuospatial/constructional
 Picture naming Language
 Category fluency Language
 Digit span Attention
 Digit-symbol coding Attention/visual processing and encoding
 List recognition Delayed memory
 Story recall Delayed memory
 Figure recall Delayed memory/visuospatial

Key: F+A+S, Total words starting with ‘F’, ‘A’, ‘S’.