Attentional Imbalances Following Head Injury

Abstract

We have employed three tasks, developed by cognitive psychologists to study attention, with a population of six brain injured subjects in a rehabilitation program. Each of the tasks had been validated by studies with unilateral stroke patients and appear to provide a means of examining the relative efficiency of the two cerebral hemispheres when demands upon them are placed in conflict. We found that five of the six patients had imbalances between the two hemispheres. Four of them met our definition of attentional because the imbalance interacted with cues. The results show that the three tests converge on a common picture of cerebral imbalances in these brain injury patients and may relate to some aspects of their normal functioning. Keywords: Psychological tests; Cognition; Brain damage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 30, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197122

Entities

People

  • Bruce Crosson
  • Craig A. Velozo
  • Jennifer Sandson
  • Michael Posner
  • Peggy P. Barco
  • Teresa C. Brobeck

Organizations

  • Washington University in St. Louis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain
  • Brain Injuries
  • Craniocerebral Trauma
  • Detection
  • Head Injuries
  • Hemorrhage
  • Identification
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Recognition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Universities
  • Wounds And Injuries

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Neurotrauma and Rehabilitation Medicine.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.