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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2013 Feb 20;34(7):1891–1901. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.01.018

Table 1.

Overview of animal tasks that parallel the NIH Toolbox cognitive function battery

Domain Task in NIH Toolbox CFB Parallel animal task
Executive function
Cognitive flexibility Dimensional card sort task Attentional set-shifting task
Reversal learning task
Inhibitory control Flanker task Go/No-go tasks
Working memory Single and multiple list sorting task Discussed as a separate domain
Episodic memory Sequential memory/learning task What–where tasks
What–when tasks
What–where–when task
Working memory Single and multiple list sorting task DNMP/DNMS
Self-order tasks
n-Back task
Processing speed Pattern comparison task Pattern comparison task
Attention Flanker task 5-Choice serial reaction task
Visual attention task
Language Picture vocabulary test N/A

Key: CFB, cognitive function battery; DNMP/DNMS, delayed non-match to position/delayed non-match to sample; N/A, not available; NIH, National Institutes of Health.