| PDoC | Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness |
| EMCS | Emerged from Minimally Conscious State |
| IRR | Inter-rater reliability |
| MATADOC | Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness |
| MBECF | Music-Based Evaluation of Cognitive Functioning |
| MCS | Minimally Conscious State |
| MiDAS | Music in Dementia Scales |
| RMST | Residual Music Skills Test |
| TRT | Test–retest reliability |
| VS | Vegetative State |