Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test.

PASAT

What it measures

Information-processing speed, working memory, sustained and divided attention under time pressure

Length and format

61 digits per trial x ~4 speed trials (2.4/2.0/1.6/1.2 s ISI). performance - serial addition of consecutive spoken digits, timed (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Language-light (digits); administered internationally with localised digit audio (approx many langs)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

Gronwall DMA. Paced auditory serial-addition task: a measure of recovery from concussion. Percept Mot Skills. 1977;44(2):367-373.