Table Info

Table 1.

Outputs of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)

Outputs	Description
1	Number of categories completed
2	Number of items or trials to complete the first category
3	Number of trials to complete the WCST
4	Total correct responses
5	Total errors or incorrect responses
6	Percentage of total errors
7	Total perseverative responses
8	Percentage of perseverative responses
9	Total perseverative errors
10	Percentage of perseverative errors
11	Total non-perseverative errors
12	Percentage of non-perseverative errors
13	The frequency of failure to maintain set or set-loss errors
14	Conceptual-level responses
15	Percentage of conceptual-level responses

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Declarations

Author contributions

ERM: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Project administration, Visualization, Funding acquisition, Writing—review & editing.

Conflicts of interest

The author declares that do not have conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

The present experiment and the whole project will be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. It will be presented to the Ethics Committee of the Centre designated for the development of the project for protocol approval, and all participants will sign a written informed consent and will be informed of their right to cease participation in the study at any time.

Consent to participate

Informed consent to participate in the study will be obtained from all participants.

Consent to publication

Informed consent to publication will be obtained from participants.

Availability of data and materials

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/YBDCT/). This work is available as preprint at Open Science Framework (Preprint DOI).

Funding

This work was developed independently, with the support of MAP Institute Centre of Psychology. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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