Table 6 Overview of neuropsychometric tests collected to date in the NSHD
| Cognitive domain |
Age 8 [124–126] |
Age 11 [124–127] |
Age 15 [124–126, 128] |
Age 18 [126] |
Age 43 [129–131] |
Age 53 [127–130, 132] |
Age 60–64 [46, 124, 132, 133] | Age 69 |
Ages 69–71 and 71–73 (Insight 46) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premorbid IQ (estimated) | National Adult Reading Test | |||||||||
| Verbal reasoning and reading comprehension | Reading comprehension test | Verbal abilities test | Verbal section of Alice Heim Test; Watts-Vernon reading comprehension test. | Watts-Vernon reading comprehension test | ||||||
| Non-verbal reasoning | Picture intelligence test | Non-verbal abilities test | Non-verbal section of Alice Heim Test | WASI Matrix Reasoning | ||||||
| Memory | Short-term Verbal Memory | Word list | Word list | Word list | Word list | WMS-R Logical Memory | ||||
| Short-term Visual Memory | Visual memory test | ‘What was where?’ task | ||||||||
| Short-term Associative Memory | FNAME-12 | |||||||||
| Prospective Memory | Prospective memory test | |||||||||
| Literacy | Word reading test; Vocabulary test | Word reading test; Vocabulary test | ||||||||
| Numeracy | Arithmetic test | Mathematics test | ||||||||
| Executive function | Verbal Fluency | Category fluency | Phonemic fluency and category fluency (as part of the ACE-III exam) | |||||||
| Reaction Time/ Task-set switching / Response Inhibition | Simple Reaction Time; Choice Reaction Time | Choice Reaction time (inc. switching and inhibition measures) | ||||||||
| Processing speed and attention | Letter Search | Letter Search | Letter Search | Letter Search | WAIS-R Digit Symbol Substitution; Irrelevant Distractor | |||||
| Visuomotor integration | Timed manual pegboard | Circle Tracing | ||||||||
| General / multiple domains | Educational attainment measure | Educational attainment measure | Addenbrookes Cognitive Examination (ACE-III) | Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) | ||||||