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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychology. 2012 Oct 29;27(1):95–106. doi: 10.1037/a0030481

Table 1.

Summary of tests of executive function (from Brandt et al., 2009).

Proposed Domain Test Measures Scores range
Spontaneous
Flexibility and
Generativity
Alternate Uses Test (Guilford, 1978) Total raw score 0–36
Random Number Generation (Brugger, Monsch, Salmon, & Butters, 1996) Sum of written trial RNG
and oral trial RNG
0–2
Tinker Toy Test (Koss, Patterson, Mack, Smyth, & Whitehouse, 1998) Total raw score 0–13
Inhibition of
Prepotent
Responses
D-KEFS Stroop Test (Delis, 2001) Inhibition trial scaled score 0–19
Hayling Test (Burgess & Shallice, 1997) Total scaled score 0–10
Completions & Corrections Test
(Manning, 2006)
Total correct score 0–12
Planning and
Sequencing
Porteus Maze Test (Porteus, 1965) Test Age score 0–17
D-KEFS Tower Test (Delis, 2001) Total achievement scaled
score
0–19
Tic-Tac-Toe (Brandt et al., 2009) Total correct score (−16)−16
Concept/Rule
Learning and Set
Shifting
D-KEFS Sorting Test (Delis, 2001) Confirmed sorts scaled
score
0–19
Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test
(Burgess & Shallice, 1997)
Total scaled score 0–10
Verbal Concept Attainment Test
(Bornstein, 1982)
Total correct raw score 0–24
Decision-Making
and Judgment
Stanford Binet Absurdities Test
(Thordike, 1986)
Total raw score 0–32
Iowa Gambling Test (Bechara, Damasio, Tranel, & Anderson, 1998) Advantageous selections
(C+D deck responses) on
block 5 minus block 1
(−20)−20
Experimental Judgment Test (Brandt et al., 2009) Mean percent deviation
Working Memory
and Resource-
Sharing
Trail Making Test (Reitan, 1958) Time on Part B minus time
on Part A
≤ 600
Brief Test of Attention (Schretlen, Bobholz, & Brandt, 1996) Total correct raw score 0–20
TEA Telephone Search While Counting
(Robertson, Ward, Ridgeway, & Nimmo-Smith, 1994)
Dual task decrement score