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EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
Executive Function Test
A focused executive-function test planned for this cognitive testing area.
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Test several types of reasoning in one sitting.
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Cognitive Function Assessments
Umbrella assessments that test several components within one cognitive function, including attention, memory, processing speed, multitasking, pattern recognition, and spatial reasoning.
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ATTENTION SCORE
Attention Test
Assess several dimensions of attention, including selective and sustained focus, inhibitory control, and visual scanning.
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PROCESSING SPEED
Processing Speed Test
Combine several speeded tasks into a broader assessment of how quickly and accurately you process routine information.
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SHORT-TERM MEMORY
Short-Term Memory Test
Measure how well you briefly hold and recall information across more than one short-term memory format.
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WORKING MEMORY
Working Memory Test
Assess the ability to hold, update, and work with information across multiple working-memory demands.
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MULTITASKING
Multitasking Test
Measure performance across dual-task cost, task switching, divided attention, and parallel monitoring.
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PATTERN RECOGNITION
Pattern Recognition Test
Assess pattern discovery across matrices, visual sequences, and classification-style pattern tasks.
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SPATIAL REASONING
Spatial Reasoning Test
Assess spatial reasoning across mental rotation, cube-net folding, and mirror-image tasks in one combined assessment.
Focused Cognitive Tests
Tests that focus on a more specific cognitive ability rather than serving as a broader umbrella assessment of an entire cognitive function.
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CRITICAL THINKING
Critical Thinking Test
Measure inference, assumptions, deduction, interpretation, and argument evaluation in a focused critical-thinking assessment.
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REACTION TIME
Reaction Time Test
Measure simple visual response speed with a focused reaction-time task.
What Do Cognitive Tests & Assessments Measure?
Cognitive tests measure how you perform on mental tasks such as remembering information, focusing attention, processing information quickly, reasoning through patterns, or responding to a signal. Some tests isolate one narrow ability, while broader cognitive assessments combine several tasks to give a more complete picture of an overall ability or cognitive domain.
Overall ability vs. cognitive domains
The IQ-Style Test is the broadest assessment on this page, so it is featured separately above the test grids. Cognitive-function assessments such as the Attention Test, Processing Speed Test, Spatial Reasoning Test, and Multitasking Test go deeper into one function by combining multiple components of that area.
When to use a focused cognitive test
Use a focused test when you want a narrower measurement rather than a broad cognitive-function assessment. For example, the Reaction Time Test focuses specifically on response speed, while the Critical Thinking Test focuses on inference, assumptions, deduction, interpretation, and argument evaluation. For brain-age, mental-age, left/right-brain, and other broader recreational formats, visit the Brain Tests hub.