AD D E N B R O O K E ’ S C O G N I T I V E E X AM I N A T I O N – A C E -II I

American V e r s i o n A
Name: Date of Testing: _/ /
Date of Birth: Tester’s Name: _ _
Age: Education:
Place of Testing: Occupation: _
Handedness:
AT T E N T I O N *(Su m together onl y the i tems i n
BOLD for the M- ACE score)
 Ask: What is the Da y Date Month Year Season Attention
[Score 0-5]
*
 Ask: Which No./Floor Street/Hospital To wn County Country
Attention
[Score 0-5]

AT T E N T I O N
 T ell: “I’m going to give you three words and I’d like you to repeat them after me: lemon, key and ball.” Attention
After subject repeats, say “Try to remember them because I’m going to ask you later”. [Score 0-3]
 Score only the first trial (repeat 3 times if necessary).
 Register number of trials:

AT T E N T I O N

 Ask the subject: “Could you take 7 away from 100? I’d like you to keep taking 7 away from each new Attention
number until I tell you to stop.” [Score 0-5]
 If subject makes a mistake, do not stop them. Let the subject carry on and check subsequent answers
(e.g., 93, 84, 77, 70, 63 – score 4).
 Stop aft er five subtractions (93, 86, 79, 72, 65):

MEMORY
 Ask: ‘Which 3 words did I ask you to repeat and remember?’ Memor y
[Score 0-3]

FLUENCY
 Letters
Say: “I’m going to give you a letter of the alphabet and I’d like you to generate as many wo rds as you can Fluenc y
beginning with that letter, but not names of people or places. For example, if I give you the letter “C”, you [Score 0 – 7]
could give me words like “cat, cry, clock” and so on. But, you can’t give me words like Catherine or Canada.
Do you understand? Are you ready? You have one minute. The letter I want you to use is the letter “P”.
≥ 18 7
14-17 6
11-13 5
8-10 4
6-7 3
4-5 2
2-3 1
0-1 0
total correct

Fluenc y
 Animals [Score 0 – 7]
Say: “No w can you name as many animals as possible. It can begin with any letter.”

≥ 22 7
17-21 6
14-16 5
11-13 4
9-10 3
7-8 2
5-6 1
5 0
total correct
MEMORY
Memor y
 Tell: “I’m going to give you a name and address and I’d like you to repeat the name and address after me. [Score 0 – 7]
So you have a chance to learn, we’ll be doing that 3 times. I’ll ask you the name and address later.”

Score only the third trial.

1st Trial 2nd Trial 3rd Trial

Harry Barnes
73 Orchard St
Springfield
Minnesota

MEMORY
Memor y
 Name of the current President...…………………………………………………………………………….. [Score 0 – 4 ]
 Name of the Vice President ............…..………………………………………………………
 Name of the previous President.......…………………………...……………………………………………………...
 Name of the President who was assassinated in the 1960s.…………….………………………………

L AN G U AG E

Language
 Place a pencil and a piece of paper in front of the subject. As a practice trial, ask the subject to “Pick up [Score 0-3]
the pencil and then the paper.” If incorrect, score 0 and do not continue further.

 If the subject is correct on the practice trial, continue with the following three commands below.
 Ask the subject to “Place the paper on top of the pencil”
 Ask the subject to “Pick up the pencil but not the paper”
 Ask the subject to “Pass me the pencil after touching the paper”
Note: Place the pencil and paper in front of the subject before each command.

L AN G U AG E
Language
 Say: “I want you to write two sentences. It can be about anything that you like. I want you to write in full [Score 0-2]
sentences and avoid abbreviations.” If the subject does not know what to write about, you could suggest
a few topics. “For instance, you could write about a recent holiday, your hobbies, your family or
childhood.” If the subject writes only one sentence, then prompt for a second one.

Sentences must contain a subject and a verb. Spelling and grammar are penalized. Sentences do not
need to be about the same topic. See scoring guidelines for more information.

L AN G U AG E
Language
 Ask the subject to repeat: ‘caterpillar’; ‘eccentricit y; ‘unintelligible’; ‘statistician’ [Score 0-2]
Score 2 if all are correct; score 1 if 3 are correct; and score 0 if 2 or less are correct.

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L AN G U AG E
Language
 Ask the subject to repeat: ‘All that glitters is not gold’ [Score 0-1]

Language
 Ask the subject to repeat: ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ [Score 0-1]

L AN G U AG E
Language
 Ask the subject to name the following pictures: [Score 0-12]

L AN G U AG E

Language
 Using the pictures above, ask the subject to: [Score 0-4]

 Point to the one which is associated with the monarchy ……………………………………………..

 Point to the one which is a marsupial ……………………………………………..
 Point to the one which is found in the Antarctic ……………………………………………..
 Point to the one which has a nautical connection …………………………………………….

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L AN G U AG E
Language
 Ask the subject to read the following words: (Score 1 only if all correct) [Score 0-1]

sew
pint
soot
dough
height
V I S U O S P AT I AL AB I L I T I E S
Visuospatial
 Infinity Diagram: Ask the subject to copy this diagram. [Score 0-1]

Visuospatial
 W ire cube: Ask the subject to copy this drawing (for scoring, see instructions guide). [Score 0-2]

Visuospatial
 Clock: Ask the subject to draw a clock face with numbers. Then, ask the subject to put the hands at ten [Score 0-5]
past five. (For scoring see instruction guide: circle = 1, numbers = 2, hands = 2 if all correct).

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V I S U O S P AT I AL AB I L I T I E S
Visuospatial
 Ask the subject to count the dots without pointing to them [Score 0-4]

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V I S U O S P AT I AL AB I L I T I E S
Visuospatial
 Ask the subject to identify the letters [Score 0-4]

M EM ORY

 Ask “Now tell me what you remember about that name and address we were repeating at the beginning”

Harry Barnes …………………. …………………………………… Memor y

73 Orchard Street …… ………………………. ………………………. [Score 0-7]
Springfield …………………………………………………………
Minnesota …………………………………………………………
M EM ORY
Memory
 This test should be done if the subject failed to recall one or more items above. If all items were recalled, skip [Score 0-5]
the test and score 5. If only part was recalled start by ticking items recalled in the shadowed column on the
right hand side; and then test not recalled items by telling the subject “ok, I’ll give you some hints: was the
name X, Y or Z?” and so on. Each recognized item scores one point, which is added to the point gained by
recalling.
Jerry Barnes Harry Barnes Harry Bradford recalled
37 73 76 recalled
Orchard Place Oak Street Orchard Street recalled
Richmond Springfield Greendale recalled
Minnesota Illinois Ohio recalled
SCORES
TOTAL ACE-III SCORE /1 00
TOTAL M-ACE SCORE /30

Attention /18
Memor y /26
Fluenc y /14
Language /26
Visuospatial /16

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