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. 2014 Aug 11;8:592. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00592

Table 2.

Participants’s language and non-verbal cognitive diagnostic assessments.

FL FS JPL
MT-86 aphasia battery (Nespoulous et al., 1992)
 Expression
  Naming/31 17 [28] 8 [28] 17 [23]
  Narrative discourse/18 9 [9] 2 [9] 7 [8]
   Global reduction of fluency Moderate Severe Moderate
   Agrammatism Severe Severe Severe
   Syntactic deviations Moderate Severe Moderate
   Anomia Moderate Severe Moderate
   Phonetic deviations Moderate Severe Moderate
   Phonemic deviations (and/or jargon) Moderate Severe Moderate
   Semantic deviations Moderate Mild Mild
 Repetition/30 16 [24] 9 [24] 12 [27]
 Comprehension/47 24 [40] 33 [40] 34 [39]
  Words/9 9 8 9
  Sentences/38 15 25 25
Verbal fluency test (Cardebat et al., 1990)
 Phonemic fluency 2 (−2.6) 8 (−2.2) 8 (−2.2)
 Semantic fluency 6 (−3.9) 7 (−3.7) 23 (−2.3)
Abbreviated MBEMA (Peretz et al., 2013)
 Pitch/20 15 9 (−4.1) 14
 Rhythm/20 17 16 17
 Memory/20 15 13 (−3.6) 17
PEGV (Agniel et al., 1992)
 Visual agnosia/66 62 62 66
WAIS (Wechsler, 1997a)
 Matrix reasoning/26 22 11 23
WMS (Wechsler, 1997b)
 Spatial span/32 10 15 17
Tower of London – Drexel University (Culbertson and Zillmer, 2001)
 Total move score 7 32 20

When available, the maximum score is indicated next to the test name. Measures considered below the relevant norms for patient’s demographics are printed in bold and number of standard deviations (SD) to the mean is indicated next to the scores in parentheses. Cut-off scores for patients’ age and education are in square brackets. MBEMA, Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Musical Abilities; PEGV, Protocole d’évaluation des gnosies visuelles (Visual agnosia diagnostic battery); WAIS-III, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – third edition; WMS, Wechsler Memory Scale – third edition.