Table 1.

Neuropsychological Battery with Tests Grouped by Neuropsychological Function.

Neuropsychological function	Component test variables
Abstraction and flexibility	WCST: Categories WCST: Perserverative Errors
Attention	Continuous Performance Test: Number correct1 Trail Making Test: Parts A & B speed2 WAIS–R: Digit Span & Digit Symbol Seashore Rhythm Test2
Verbal memory	Logical Memorya I & II (WMS/WMS-R) CVLT: Learning trials 1–5
Visual memory	Visual Reproduction I & II (WMS/WMS–R)
Spatial abilities	Judgment of Line Orientation WAIS–R: Block Design
Language	Controlled Oral Word Association Raw score3 Animal Naming Raw score (BDAE) Token Test3, 12 item version Boston Naming Test Mattis Aphasia Exam Visual Naming3
Motor skills	Finger Tapping2 Thumb-Finger Sequential Touch4
Sensory skills	Stereognosis Time (sec.), LNNB4 Stereognosis Errors, LNNB4

Note.

¹Gordon Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (Gordon, 1986).

²Halstead–Reitan Neuropsychological Battery (Reitan & Wolfson, 1993).

³Multilingual Aphasia Examination (MAE; Benton & Hamsher, 1976).

⁴Luria–Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (Golden, Purisch, & Hammeke, 1981); WCST, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test – card version (Heaton, 1981); WAIS–R, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Revised (Wechsler, 1981); WMS–R, Wechsler Memory Scale – Revised (Wechsler, 1987); CVLT, California Verbal Learning Test (Delis, Kramer, Kaplan, & Ober, 1983); BDAE, Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1983).

^aLogical Memory percent recall used earlier subjects tested using the original Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS).