Table 3.

CANTAB cognitive task descriptions.

EF task	Function measured	Key variables
Rapid Visual Information Processing (RVP)	Visual Sustained Attention: detection of target sequences	A Prime: the signal detection measure of sensitivity to the target, regardless of response tendency.
Information Sampling Task (IST box)	Pre-decisional processing, where the subject gathers and evaluates information prior to making a decision	Mean boxes opened (box) and sample error.
Reaction Time (RTI simp)	Speed of response and movement in single paradigm	Simple paradigm.
Spatial Working Memory (SWM btw errors)	Working memory	Between search errors.
Stockings of Cambridge (SOC)	Spatial planning	Problems solved in minimum moves.