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| Cognitive abilities and description of task |
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Language tests | |
AAT [17] | |
Repetition | Repeating phonemes, words, and sentences |
Writing to dictation | Writing words and sentences on dictation |
Reading out loud | Reading aloud words and sentences |
Token Test | Comprehension of, pointing to, and manipulating geometric forms |
Boston Naming Test [18] | Naming 60 pictures, presented in order of word frequency and word difficulty |
Category fluency | Flexibility of verbal semantic thought: categories (e.g., animals) (within 1 min) |
Letter fluency | Flexibility of verbal phonological thought: letters D, A, and T (within 1 min) |
DuLIP [16] | |
Syntactic fluency | Flexibility of verbal grammatical thought, producing verbs (within 1 min) |
Object naming1 | Word finding: naming objects |
Action naming | Word finding, grammar: naming actions |
Memory tests | |
Digit span for/backward [19] | Verbal learning of digits: repeating the list of digits forward/backward |
15-word test [19] | Verbal learning of words |
Learning | Immediate recall: learning a list of 15 words, immediate recall for 5 times |
Recall | Delayed recall: learning a list of 15 words, 1 delayed recall |
Recognition | Delayed recognition: 1 delayed recognition out of 30 words |
Attentional & executive tests | |
Trail Making Test (TMT) [19] | |
Trail Making Test A | Visuomotor speed, attention: connecting numbers in ascending order |
Trail Making Test B | Divided attention/mental flexibility: connecting alternating numbers and letters |
Stroop Color Word Test [19] | |
Stroop I | Mental speed, selective attention: reading color words |
Stroop II | Mental speed, selective attention: naming colors |
Stroop III | Mental speed, selective attention: naming colors of printed words denoting another color |
Design fluency [20] | Nonverbal fluency, attention, motor speed, visuoperceptual and constructional abilities |
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