Table 6.

Standardised auditory-verbal STM tests, listed alphabetically by test type.

Test types	Task summary	Studies and test publication (test, author, year)	N (participants with aphasia with whom test was used)
Digit Span – spoken recall	Serial forward and backward recall	Abou El Ella et al. (2013): CAT (Swinburn, Porter, & Howard, 2004) Allen et al. (2012): WAIS-R (Wechsler, 1981) Butler et al. (2014): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Caza et al. (2002): Échelle Clinique de Wechsler (Wechsler, 1969)a; Échelle d′ Intelligence Ottawa-Wechsler (Wechsler, 1957)a Crescentini et al. (2008): WAIS-R (Wechsler, 1981) DeDe et al. (2014): WAIS-R (Wechsler, 1981) Francis et al. (2003): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Hoffman et al. (2013): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Howard and Nickels (2005): WAIS-R (Wechsler, 1981) Lang and Quitz (2012): WMS-R (Härting et al., 2000)a Lee and Pyun (2014): Computerised Neurocognitive Test (MaxMedica, Seoul, Korea)a Mayer and Murray (2002): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Murray et al. (2006): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Salis (2012): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) Sidiropoulos et al. (2015): WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987)	272
Digit Span -pointing	Serial recognition of written digits, presented aurally	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Digit Span – matching order	Serial recognition of spoken lists of digits	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Pointing Span	Forward and backward serial recall of spoken words by picture pointing	DeDe et al. (2014): Picture span (DeDe et al., 2014) Meteyard et al. (2015): Object-action word pointing (Kay et al., 1992)	16
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test – immediate recall	Immediate free recall of words	Vukovic et al. (2008): Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (Rey, 1964)	34
Sentence Comprehension	Comprehension of short vs. long sentences	Salis (2012): Revised Token Test (McNeil & Prescott, 1978)	1
Word Span – short words	Spoken serial recall of short words	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Word Span – long words	Spoken serial recall of long words	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Word Span – phonological similarity	Spoken serial recall of phonologically similar words	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Non-word Span	Spoken serial recall of non-words	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Word Span -recognition	Serial recognition of written words, previously presented aurally	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Word Span – probe	Recognition of spoken words (non-serially) varying by frequency, imageability, word class	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17
Word Span – matching order	Serial recognition of spoken lists of digits	Friedmann and Gvion (2007): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002) Gvion and Friedmann (2012): FriGvi (Friedmann & Gvion, 2002)	17

^aThese tests were not evaluated in terms of quality as they were unobtainable.

CAT = Comprehensive Aphasia Test; WAIS-R = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Revised; WMS-R = Wechsler Memory Scale – Revised.