TABLE 2.

The neuropsychological battery

Ability area	Neuropsychological test	Assesses
Overall vocabulary	WRAT-3 Reading	Premorbid verbal ability
Working memory	Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task WAIS-III Letter-Number Sequencing	Ability to work with information in short-term store
Executive functioning	Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Trail Making Test Part B	Abstracting ability (abstract reasoning, evaluating, planning, and decision making)
Attention/ speed of information processing	WAIS-III Digit Symbol WAIS-III Symbol Search Trail Making Test Part A	Selecting and evaluating input under time pressure; associated with speed of information processing
Learning	Hopkins Verbal Learning Test,  Immediate Recall Trials 1-3 Brief Visuospatial Memory Test,  Immediate Recall Trials 1-3 Story Memory Test,  Learning Rate  Trial 1 Recall Figure Memory Test  Learning Rate  Trial 1 Recall	Learning of explicit and implicit memories, logical memory, and nonverbal memory
Memory	Hopkins Verbal Learning Test,  Delayed Recall Brief Visuospatial Memory Test,  Delayed Recall Story Memory Test,  %Loss Figure Memory Test  %Loss	Delayed recall of explicit and implicit memories, logical memory, and nonverbal memory
Verbal fluency	Controlled Oral Word Association Test  Animal (Category) Fluency Test	Fluency (spontaneous generation of words)
Psychomotor	Grooved Pegboard Test	Performance of motor tasks

Note. WRAT-3 = Wide Range Achievement Test-Third Edition. WAIS-III = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition.