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Neuropsych battery description
By Etienne Aumont
Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test
This test consists of 3 main components:
- Learning phase: the participant is presented with sheets with 4 pictures. They are asked to point towards the picture representing one category (e.g. fruit: grape), and then name it. After this, the participant has to recall the word. This is done for 16 words. If they miss, they are told what the missing word was and prompted to repeat it.
- Immediate recall: after a short interference (counting down from 100 by 3s), there are 3 immediate recall trials where, in case of failure to recall one word, they are cued with the category of the missing words (e.g. what was the fruit?). It they still fail to recall, they are reminded what the word was.
- Delayed recall: after ~20 mins, they have a chance to recall the words freely. Afterward, missing words are cued to give them a second chance.
Rey Audory Verbal Learning Test
The participant is auditorially presented with a list of 15 words, one at a time and has to recall them. There are 9 trials:
- 5 learning trials consisting of a presentation of a word list A followed by a recall
- 1 distraction trial consisting of a presentation of a word list B followed by a recall
- The immediate recall (IR), where the participant has to recall the list A
- ~20 minutes later, a delayed recall (DR)
- A recognition trial right after the DR where the participant has to say whether each of 50 words were in list A
Aggie Figure Learning Test
The participant is visually presented with a set of 15 figures, one at a time and has to recall them. There are 9 trials:
- 5 learning trials consisting of a presentation of the same set of figures followed by a recall
- 1 distraction trial consisting of a presentation of a different set of figures followed by a recall
- The immediate recall (IR), where the participant has to recall the first set of figures
- ~20 minutes later, a delayed recall (DR)
- A recognition trial right after the DR where the participant has to say where each of 52 figures belong (15 from set A, 15 from set B and 22 distractors)
From the Weschler Memory Scale-III (WMS-III)
The participant is told a story. He then has to recall it, including as many elements of the original story as possible.
After a 20+ mins delay, the participant has to recall it again.
The original test has 2 stories, but we only use one of them. There is also a recognition trial tat we don't administer.
A computerized task that consists of associating faces with names.
- Learning phase: first, the faces are presented and identified with a name
- Immediate recall: Faces are presented and the participant has to name them
- Delayed recall: ~20 mins later, the same recall is done again
- Recognition: a face and a name is presented, and the participant has to say if either:
- The name-face pair matches what was learned
- The name is new to the test
- The name is one associated with another face showed during the test
Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Quick general cognitive state test (10 minutes) with visuospatial, verbal, attentional, memory, orientation and reasoning orientation tests.
Birmingham Object Recognition Battery
This test is designed to test visual perception using basic and complex stimuli.
We use two subtests:
- Matchtask: The participant has to tell if 2 lines are perfectly parallel or not.
- Object decision: The participant has to identify if images depict real or chimerical animals/tools
Boston Naming Test
This test is designed to test visual perception.
The participant has to name objects depicted in black and white contour drawings.
Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System
This test is specialized in measuring many types of executive functions.
The ones we use are:
- Fluency: The participant has to name as many items as possible within 60 seconds.
- Category (or semantic) fluency: The items must be from a specific category. There are 2 trials: animals and boy's names
- Letter (or phonetic) fluency: The items must start with a specified letter. There are 3 trials: F-A-S in English or P-F-L in French
- Stroop: The participant has to either name the color of 50 stimuli or read it aloud, depending on the trial.
- Color naming: Name the color of rectangles
- Word reading: Read words that represent colors
- Inhibition: Name the color of a word that represent a different color (i.e. Blue written in a yellow font)
- Switching/inhibition: Either name the color (if it's not framed) or read the word (if it's framed).
- Trail Making Test (also TMT or Reitan): As quickly as possible, the participant has to link characters following a specified order
- Trial A: To link numbers in order
- Trial B: To link alternatively between letters and numbers in order (1-a-2-b-3-c-4-d etc.)
A is to measure motor processing while B is for task switching. We usually subtract the time for A from the time for B.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale & Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
A general intellectual quotient (IQ) scale made of ~10 subtests. The WASI is an abbreviated 2-subtest version.
The ones we use are:
- Digit symbol: The participant has to translate digits into symbols by using a key at the top of the page. Each number has a symbol associated to it. The participant has 120 seconds to translate as many digits as possible.
- Digit span: The participant is given a sequence of digits, which they have to repeat in a specified order. The test continues until the participant fails two trials of the same length.
- Forward: The participant repeats the sequence in the original order
- Backward: The participant repeats the sequence in the reversed order
- WASI vocabulary: correctly defining increasingly rare words
- WASI matrix: completing an increasingly complex visual pattern with the correct option