Table 1 List of neuropsychological tests administered in pre and post-neurofeedback (NF) training
Neuropsychological test | ||
Global assessment of cognitive functions | Cognitive function | Description |
  • MoCa (2 versions) (range from 0 to 30) | Visuospatial/executive | Score between 21 to 25 = MCI |
Naming | ||
Memory | ||
Attention | ||
Language | ||
Abstraction | ||
Orientation | ||
  • MMSE (range from 0 to 30) | Brief quantitative cognitive measures | Score between 23 and 26/30 = MCI |
Orientation | ||
Registration | ||
Attention | ||
Calculation | ||
Recall | ||
Language | ||
Episodic memory | ||
  • RAVLT (4 lists of 15 words) | Declarative memory | A 15-noun word list, ability to encode, combine, store and recover verbal information |
  • Story Recall Test (A or B) recalls and a | Declarative memory | 2 immediate delayed recall (30 min) |
   • DMS 48 | Visual recognition memory | 1st phase: implicit encoding 48 visual items and immediate recall; 2nd phase: 1 h delayed trial on choice recognition |
  • Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (or Taylor Complex Figure) | Visual declarative memory | 30-min recall |
Working memory and executive functions | ||
  • TMTA (Trail Making Test part A) | Sustained attention | Capacity to maintain and attentional activity over a period of time |
  • TMTB (Trail Making Test part B) | Alternating attention | Capacity to shift in focus and tasks (B/A time) |
  • eCT | Executive function | Capacity to discriminate stimuli |