Table 2.

Group neuropsychological evaluation scores for presurgical, postsurgical, and pre/post changes, organized by cognitive domain.

	Total N	Pre‐surgical score	Post‐surgical score	Pre/post change in score	p‐value
Attention
BTA	35	15.4 ± 3.4)	13.5 ± 4.9)	−1.8 (± 3.3)	0.003
Digit span	36	27.1 (± 4.2)	25.3 (± 4.2)	−1.9 (± 3.5)	0.003
Coding
Executive Function	37	55.5 (± 13.5)	47.9 (± 13.7)	−7.6 (± 10.6)	<0.0001
Stroop color‐word	30	35.2 (± 7.6)	29.7 (± 7.7)	−5.4 (± 5.4)	<0.0001
Stroop interference	27	2.0 (± 12.3)	6.9 (± 19.2)	4.9 (± 21.4)	0.25
WSCT‐64 perseverative errors	33	20.0 (± 12.2)	19.2 (± 12.8)	−0.8 (± 14.7)	0.77
Memory
BVMT‐R delayed recall	39	7.8 (± 2.5)	7.4 (± 3.2)	−0.4 (± 2.4)	0.29
BVMT‐R discrimination index	39	5.6 (± 0.8)	5.2 (± 1.2)	−0.4 (± 1.1)	0.05
BVMT‐R total	39	19.1 (± 6.7)	17.7 (± 8.3)	−1.4 (± 6.0)	0.14
CVLT‐II long‐delay recall	38	9.7 (± 3.4)	10.1 (± 3.1)	0.4 (± 2.8)	0.42
CVLT‐II recognition hits	38	14.8 (± 1.3)	14.6 (± 1.6)	−0.2 (± 1.7)	0.5
CVLT‐II total	38	46.3 (± 13.0)	45.2 (± 12.3)	−1.1 (± 10.2)	0.51
Verbal fluency
Animal naming	36	21.9 (± 5.4)	18.7 (± 5.0)	−3.1 (± 4. 7)	0.0003
Letter fluency	38	41.8 (± 10.4)	35.1 (± 12.1)	−6.7 (± 9.1)	<0.0001
Visuospatial function
Block design	36	34.8 (± 11.1)	32.4 (± 11.4)	−2.4 (± 6.4)	0.03
JOLO	37	23.6 (± 4.7)	23.4 (± 4.5)	−0.3 (± 3.8)	0.67

All values are Mean (± SD).

Abbreviations: BTA, Brief Test of Attention; BVMT‐R, Brief Visual Memory Test‐Revised; CVLT‐II, California Verbal Learning Test‐II; JOLO, Judgement of Line Orientation; WCST‐64, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test‐64.