Materials
TMT-J
We selected the following tests for remote assessment: Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM) [We obtained research use permission for the RCPM from Pearson Asia Inc., under the condition that we would not digitise the stimulus booklet. Story recall was extracted from the Japanese version of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT) [Regarding the TMT-A, TMT-B, visual cancellation task, digit span, and tapping span, we created them ourselves as original tasks because we could not obtain permission from the authors and publishers of these standardised Japanese tests. We created new tasks of TMT for VTC assessment: TMT-A for connecting numbers (1 to 20) with lines, and TMT-B for connecting numbers and Japanese kana letters (あ to こ) alternately with lines. Given the prevalence of age-related visual and/or motor capability problems, the size of the numbers was increased by approximately 1.5 times (from a diameter of 14 mm to 20 mm) compared with the standardised Trail Making Test-Japanese edition (TMT-J) [