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Table 1.

Standard neuropsychological assessments used in this study

Cognitive domain and subdomain^a	Cognitive tests	First author, publication date [reference]
Dementia screening	MMSE	Folstein, 1975 [22]
Memory
Verbal span^a	VLMT trial 1	Helmstaedter, 2001 [46]
Verbal span^a	CERAD wordlist trial 1	Aebi, 2002 [47]
Verbal learning^a	VLMT trial 1–5	see above
Verbal learning^a	CERAD wordlist trial 1–3	see above
Verbal recall^a	VLMT trial 6	see above
Verbal recall^a	CERAD wordlist recall	see above
Verbal recognition^a	VLMT trial 8 true	see above
Verbal recognition^a	CERAD wordlist recognition %	see above
Visual recall^a	CFT 3-minute recall	Meyers, 1996 [48]
Visual recall^a	CERAD figure recall	see above
Language
Object naming^a	Wortproduktionsprüfung (Word Production Test)	Blanken, 1999 [49]
Object naming^a	CERAD Boston naming test 15	see above
Visuospatial skills
Figure copy^a	CFT copy	see above
Figure copy^a	CERAD figure copy	see above
Executive function
Semantic word fluency ^a	RWT- 1 minute category fluency “animals”	Aschenbrenner, 2000 [50]
Phonematic word fluency ^a	RWT- 1 minute letter fluency “S”	see above
Set shifting^a	TMT B	Tombaugh, 2004 [51]
Digit span backwards^a	Wechsler Memory Scale – backward digit span	Härting, 2000 [52]
Attention
Processing speed^a	TMT A	see above
Praxis
Pantomime of object use^a	Cologne Apraxia Screening 1.1 and 1.2.	Weiss, 2013 [53]
Imitation of limb postures^a	Cologne Apraxia Screening 2.2	see above
Imitation of face postures^a	Cologne Apraxia Screening 2.1	see above
Social cognition
Facial emotion recognition^a	Ekman Facial Emotion Recognition test (SEA)	Funkiewiez, 2012 [54]

Abbreviations: CERAD Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease neuropsychological test battery, CFT Complex Figure Test, MMSE Mini Mental State Examination, RWT Regensburg Word Fluency Test, SEA Social Cognition and Emotional Assessment, TMT Trail Making Test, VLMT Verbal Learning and Memory Test

Column 1 displays all covered cognitive domains (bold) and subdomains. Column 2 displays the incorporated tests to cover the respective subdomains. Italicised tests display the alternative test set, which was employed for patients >65 years of age (Alzheimer’s disease 18 of 43, behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia 4 of 26). For inter-test and inter-subdomain comparability in statistical analysis, individual test raw scores were z-transformed. Column 3 presents the first author’s name and the publication date of the normative data we used to estimate patients’ test performance

^aUsed for statistical analysis