Working memory |
Digit span |
Age-appropriate Wechsler intelligence scale [32,33] |
Ability to repeat back in order, or in a re-sequenced order, increasingly difficult strings of numbers |
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Letter-number sequencing |
Age-appropriate Wechsler intelligence scale [32,33] |
Ability to mentally re-sequence a series of letters and numbers before repeating them back |
Psychomotor speed |
Coding |
Age-appropriate Wechsler intelligence scale [32,33] |
Test-takers decode and transcribe a series of symbols as quickly as possible |
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Symbol search |
Age-appropriate Wechsler intelligence scale [32,33] |
Score reflects speed and accuracy of test-takers' visual searches for matches in rows of symbols |
Attention |
Hit reaction time standard error |
Conners' continuous performance test II [34] |
On a 15-minute-long boring task, the variability in reaction time to specific letters flashing on screen |
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Inhibition vs. color naming score |
Delis-Kaplan executive functioning system [35] |
Relative ability to focus on the color of the ink in which a conflicting color word is printed (for example, 'blue' written in red ink). |
Visuoconstructional abilities |
Block design |
Wechsler abbreviated scales of intelligence [36] |
Ability to efficiently reproduce colored line drawings using blocks with sides that have varying patterns |
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Block counting |
Kaufman assessment battery for children [37,38] |
Ability to mentally represent the volume of a three-dimensional block construction printed in two-dimensional space |