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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Feb;67(2):168–177. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.184

Table 1.

Neurocognitive Dependant Measures

Neurocognitive Task Dependant Measure
Letter Fluency56 Number of words, beginning with a specific letter, generated in 60-seconds
Semantic Fluency56 Number of animal names generated in 60-seconds
Digit-Symbol Coding13 Number of correctly identified digit-symbol pairs in 90-seconds
Trail Making Test, Part A56 Time needed to connect letters in ascending order
CPT Hits13 Number of hits during a 6-minute identical pairs continues performance test (CPT)
CPT Catch Trials13 Number of false alarms during a 6-minute identical pairs continues performance test (CPT)
Digit Span Forward57 Number of correctly recalled digit strings in their original order of presentation
Stroop Reaction Time20 Reaction time difference between incongruent and congruent trials of a manual Stroop test (e.g.20)
Digit Span Backward57 Number of correctly recalled digit strings in reverse order of presentation
Letter-Number Span58 Number of correctly recalled number-letter strings in numeric and alphabetical order
Spatial Delayed Response21 Number of correct responses on a simple spatial delayed-response test
Object Delayed Response35 Number of correct trials an object delayed non-match to sample task
CVLT Learning17 Number of items recalled over 5 exposures of the 16-word list of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)
CVLT Semantic Cluster17 Proximal recall of semantically related list items over 5 repeated exposures of the 16-word list
CVLT Delayed Recall17 Number of list item recalled after a 20 min delay
Digit-Symbol Recall13 Number of digits recalled when presented with the corresponding symbols from the Digit-Symbol Coding task
Facial Memory Immediate22 Number of faces recognized during the initial condition of the Penn Facial Memory test
Facial Memory Delay22 Number of faces recognized during the 20-minute delay condition on the Penn Facial Memory test22
Matrix Reasoning59 Number of correctly completed progressive matrices
PCET23 Number correctly matched shapes on the Penn Conditional Exclusion Test (PCET)
Trail Making Test, Part B56 Time needed to connect alternating letters and numbers