{"id":9304,"date":"2019-05-22T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/trail_making_test\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:17","slug":"trail_making_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/trail_making_test\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail making test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sub-test of the Delis-Kaplan Executive FunctionSystem (D-KEFS; Delis, Kaplan, &amp; Kramer,2001), designed to measure cognitive flexibility or processing speed by means of a visuomotor sequencing task. &nbsp;The D-KEFS&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rlj9GZ7VfL0\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rlj9GZ7VfL0?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trail making test&nbsp;<\/a>onsists of a series of five conditions: visual scanning, number sequencing,letter sequencing, number-letter switching, and motor speed. &nbsp;In the visualscanning condition, the particpant crosses all the 3s that appear on theresponse sheet. &nbsp;In the number sequencing condition, the particpant draws a lineconnecting all the number 1 tot 16 in order, while distractor letters appear onthe same page. &nbsp;In the number-letter sequencing condition, the participant isrequired to switch back and forth between connecting numbers and letters (i.e.,1, A, 2, B, etc., to P, 16). &nbsp;In the motor speed condition, the participant traces over a dotted line connecting circle on the page as quickly as possible, toindex their motor drawing speed. &nbsp;The test has been adapted for use with pre-school children aged 2 to 6 years, and labeled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2700546\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2700546\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TRAILS-P<\/a>. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"executive_function_-ef-\">Executive function (EF)<\/a>, <a href=\"tower_test\">Tower test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sub-test of the Delis-Kaplan Executive FunctionSystem (D-KEFS; Delis, Kaplan, &amp; Kramer,2001), designed to measure cognitive flexibility or processing speed by means of a visuomotor sequencing task. &nbsp;The D-KEFS&nbsp;Trail making test&nbsp;onsists of a series of five conditions: visual scanning, number sequencing,letter sequencing, number-letter switching, and motor speed. &nbsp;In the visualscanning condition, the particpant crosses all the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/trail_making_test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trail making test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}