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. 2006 Mar;8(1):109–113. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2006.8.1/smarder

Table II . The Provisional Cognitive Consensus Battery. The final composition of the battery will depend on reaching appropriate agreements for licensing and distribution of tests with the respective test developers and publishers. Once these agreements have been reached, the final consensus battery will be posted on the MATRICS Web site.

Speed of processing Administration time (min)
Category Fluency 2.0
Brief Assessment of Cognition in
Schizophrenia (BACS) - Symbol-Coding 3.0
Trail Making A 2.1
Attention/vigilance
Continuous Performance Test -
Identical Pairs (CPT-IP) 13.4
Working memory
Verbal: University of Maryland -
Letter-Number Span 5.9
Nonverbal: Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) -
III Spatial Span 5.1
Verbal learning
Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT) - Revised 4.1
Visual learning
Brief Visuospatial Memory Test (BVMT) - Revised 4.7
Reasoning and problem solving
Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB) -
Mazes 11.2
Social cognition
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence
Test (MSCEIT) - Managing Emotions 12.0
Total estimated administration time of
Provisional Cognitive Consensus Battery 63.5