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. 2020 Jul 7;11:1423. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01423

TABLE 6.

Abbreviations used throughout the text.

AAT Aachen Aphasia Test
ACC anterior cingulate cortex
ACT Auditory Comprehension Tests
AD Alzheimer’s disease
ANT Attention Network Task
AWF Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding
BADS Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome
BDT Block Design Test
BNT Boston Naming Test
BOLD blood oxygen level-dependent
BSAT Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test
BSRT Buschke Selective Reminding Test
BVRT Benton Visual Retention Test
CBF cerebral blood flow
CMT custom-made tests
COWAT Controlled Oral Word Association Test
CP 1 computerized paradigms involving matching, visual search, reading comprehension, visual recognition, figure/ground discrimination and motion perception
CP 2 computerized paradigms involving reflexive saccades, anti-saccades, memory-guided saccade sequences, self-paced saccades and both sine and random oculomotor smooth pursuits
CP 3 computerized paradigms involving an output accessory
CPT Continuous Performance Test
CRTT Simple Choice Reaction Time Task
CSAT Complex Selective Attention Task
CT computed tomography
CVLT II California Verbal Learning Test II
D-KEFS Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System
DMN default mode network
dMRI diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
DPT Doors and People Test
DS Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III Digit Span
DSCT Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III Digit Symbol Coding Task
DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5
DTI diffusion tensor imaging
DTT Dual-Task Tests
DVT Digit Vigilance Test
EF executive function
FC functional correlation
fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging
FWM Four Word Short-Term Memory Test
G/N and SST Go/No-go and Stop-Signal Task
GAD generalized anxiety disorder
GCS Glasgow Coma Score
GM gray matter
HC healthy control
HSCT Hayling Sentence Completion Test
HVOT Hooper Visual Organization Test
IED Intra-Extra Dimensional Set Shift Test (part of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery)
IGT Iowa Gambling Task
ITTI Implicit Test of Tachistoscopic Identification
L&M learning and memory
LGST Local-Global Switching Tasks
LOC loss of consciousness
LOJT Line Orientation Judgment Test
MC 1 and 2 Memory Cabinet 1 and 2
MCI mild cognitive impairment
MCT Monotone Counting Test
mPFC medial prefrontal cortex
MRI magnetic resonance imaging
msTBI moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury
mTBI mild traumatic brain injury
NAB Neuropsychological Assessment Battery
N-Back N-Back Working Memory Task
NST Numeric Stroop Test
NSTT Narrative Story-Telling Tests
PASAT Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test
PCC posterior cingulate cortex
PCDS post-concussive depressive symptom
PCS post-concussive symptom
PET positron emission tomography
PF A and B Prioritization forms A and B
PFC prefrontal cortex
PMT Porteus Maze Test
PN and SM Picture Naming and Semantic Priming tests
PPVT Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
PTA post-traumatic amnesia
PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder
PVSAT Paced Visual Serial Addition Test
RAVLT Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
RCFT Rey Complex Figure Test
RFFT Ruff Figural Fluency Test
RIDR Rey’s 15-word Immediate and Delayed Recall Test
RME Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
rs resting state
SA self-awareness
SART Sustained Attention to Response Task
SCWT Stroop Color-Word Test
SDMT Symbol Digit Modalities Test
SP Sternberg Paradigm for Verbal and Visuo-spatial Working Memory
SRTT Serial Reaction Time Task
TAI traumatic axonal injury
TAP Test of Attentional Performance
TBI traumatic brain injury
TMT-A Trail-Making Test A
TMT-B Trail-Making Test B
TOHT Tower of Hanoi Task
TOL Tower of London Test
ToM theory of mind
TT Token Test
TWFD Test of Word Finding in Discourse
US United States
VFT verbal fluency tests
WAIS Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
WASI Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
WCST Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
WM white matter
WMS Wechsler Memory Scale
WMT Word Memory Test

Following convention, all names of psychometric tests, tasks, batteries, forms and scales are capitalized.