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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2015 Feb 21;66:1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.001

Table 2.

Neuropsychological test battery

Neuropsychological test battery employed in this study. The ordering of tests demonstrated here is the same as from the adjacency matrices in Figures 1 and Supplementary

Abbreviation Test Name Cognitive ability
1 IQVOCS WASI Vocabulary Verbal intelligence
2 IQBDS WASI Block Design Nonverbal Intelligence
3 IQSIMS WASI Similarities Verbal intelligence
4 IQMRS WASI Matrix Reasoning Nonverbal intelligence
5 PPVTSTN Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Language (word recognition)
6 EVTSTN Expressive Vocabulary Test Language (word naming)
7 READSTN WRAT-IV Reading Word recognition
8 SPELSTN WRAT-IV Spelling Spelling
9 ARITSTN WRAT-IV Arithmetic Arithmetic calculation
10 IQDSYMS WISC-IV Digit symbol Speed
11 WLLSS Children’s Memory Scale-III Verbal memory
12 WLDSS Children’s Memory Scale-III Verbal memory
13 CPOMT Continuous Performance Test-II Executive (attention)
14 CPCOMMT Continuous Performance Test-II Executive function
15 CPRTBLKT Continuous Performance Test-II Executive function (attention)
16 LETFLUS D-KEFS Letter Fluency Language (lexical fluency)
17 CATFLUS D-KEFS Category Fluency Language (semantic fluency)
18 CATSWS D-KEFS Executive function (category switching)
19 COLSS D-KEFS Color-Word Speed
20 WORDSS D-KEFS Color-Word Speed
21 INHSS D-KEFS Inhibition Executive function (response inhibition)
22 CORSORS D-KEFS Card Sorting Test Executive function (problem solving)
23 BNTTOT Boston Naming Test Language (naming)