11691 IUPAC Gold Book - continuous performance test 10.1351/goldbook.11691 11691 current initialism: CPT 1 Any of several available neuropsychological procedures that measure a person’s sustained attention. An example of a CPT is the computer-administered Conners’ test, where, in one version, the test subject is asked to click the spacebar when presented any letter except the letter "X" with 360 presentations over a 14-minute period. Continuous performance tests are often used in evaluating children with suspected attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11622 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 858 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11691/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11691/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11691/plain Citation: 'continuous performance test' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11691 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-23T10:39:25+00:00