| Verbal memory |
Temporal encoding |
4 lists of 12 words each with increasing level of difficulty (immediate recall and delayed recall) |
| Expressive speech |
Naming and describing things (cueing and semantic analysis) |
Subject is asked to name given objects (initially cues were provided). Subject is asked to describe a thing or a picture) |
| Verbal fluency |
Word generation |
Similar to Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT) and Animal Names Test (ANT). Subject is asked to generate words from a given letter and words belonging to category viz. round objects, things made of wood, etc. within a stipulated time. The letters used in COWAT and animal names were not used |
| Attention |
Sorting colours and objects |
Subject was asked to sort particular objects or colours. The difficulty level was gradually increased by combining the objects and colours. |
| Letter and digit cancellation |
Subject was asked to cancel two digits or letters in a given array of randomly arranged letters/digits on a sheet. Increase in the difficulty level was achieved by increasing the number of rows and columns and decreasing the font size. To minimize the practice effect the numbers used in Digit Vigilance Test were never used. |
| Information processing speed |
Letter symbol substitution |
Similar to Digit Symbol Substitution Test. The task involved substituting designated symbols corresponding to letters. Increase in difficulty level was achieved by increasing the number of target symbols and number of letters to which corresponding symbols had to be inserted. |
| Reading ability |
Sight word approach |
The subject was made to read aloud selected words from a paragraph written on the flash cards and after mastering made to read the paragraph and errors and time was noted down. |
| Phonetics approach |
Reading aloud a list of words belonging to particular phonetic family. |
