Reaction time indicators of attention deficits in closed head injury

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 352-367

  Zahn, Theodore P ^a   Mirsky, Allan F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032880987     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.21.3.352.924     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Benton, A. L., Sutton, S., Kennedy, J. A., & Brokaw, J. R. (1962). The crossmodal retardation in reaction time of patients with cerebral disease. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 136, 413-418.
2. Brouwer, W. H., Ponds, R. W. H. M., Van Wolffelaar, P. C., & Van Zomeren, A. H. (1989). Divided attention 5 to 10 years after closed head injury. Cortex, 25, 219-230.
3. Colavita, F. B. (1974). Human sensory dominance. Perception and Psychophysics, 16, 409-412.
4. Costa, L. D. (1962). Visual reaction time of patients with cerebral disease as a function of length and constancy of preparatory interval. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 14, 391-397.
5. Dixon, W. J. (1992). BMDP Statistical Software Manual. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
6. Egeth, H. E., & Sager, L. C. (1977). On the locus of visual dominance. Perception and Psychophysics, 22, 77-86.
7. Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1994) Working memory dysfunction in schizophrenia. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 6, 348-357.
8. Hetherington, C. R., Stuss, D. T., & Finlayson, M. A. J. (1996). Reaction time and variability 5 and 10 years after traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 10, 473-486.
9. Kristofferson, M. W. (1967). Shifting attention between modalities: A comparison of schizophrenics and normals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 72, 388-394.
10. Mirsky, A. F., Anthony, B. J., Duncan, C. C., Ahearn, M. B., & Kellam (1991). Analysis of the elements of attention: A neuropsychological approach. Neuropsychology Review, 2, 109-145.
11. Niemi, P., & Näätänen, R. (1981). Foreperiod and simple reaction time. Psychological Bulletin, 89, 133-162.
12. Nuechterlein, K. H. (1977). Reaction time and attention in schizophrenia: A critical evaluation of the data and theories. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 3, 373-428.
13. Olbrich, R. (1972). Reaction time in brain-damaged and normal subjects to variable preparatory intervals. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 155, 356-362.
14. Ponsford, J., & Kinsella, G. (1992). Attentional deficits following closed head injury. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 14, 822-838.
15. Posner, M. I., Nissen, M. J., & Klein, R. M. (1976). Visual dominance: An information-processing account of its origins and significance. Psychological Review, 83, 157-171.
16. Rist, F., & Cohen, R. (1991). Sequential effects in the reaction times of schizophrenics: crossover and modality shift effects. In S.R. Steinhauer, J.H. Gruzelier, & J. Zubin (Eds.), Handbook of schizophrenia, Vol 5: Neuropsychology, psychophysiology and information processing, (pp. 241-271), Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
17. Schmitter-Edgecombe, M. E., Marks, W., Fahey, J. F., & Long, C. J. (1992). Effects of severe closed head injury on three stages of information processing. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 14, 717-737.
18. Shum, D. H., McFarland, K., Bain, J. D., & Humphreys, M. S. (1990). Effects of closed-head injury on attentional processes: an information-processing stage analysis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 12, 247-264.
19. Stokx, L. D., & Gaillard, A. W. K. (1986). Task and driving performance of patients with a severe concussion of the brain. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 8, 421-436.
20. Stuss, D. T., & Gow, C. A. (1992). 'Frontal dysfunction' after traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 5, 272-282.
21. Sutton, S., Hakerem, G., Zubin, J., & Portnoy, M. (1961). The effect of shift of sensory modality on serial reaction time: A comparison of schizophrenics and normals. American Journal of Psychology, 74, 224-232.
22. Van Zomeren, A. H., & Brouwer, W. H. (1994). Clinical Neuropsychology of Attention. New York: Oxford University Press.
23. Van Zomeren, A. H., Brouwer, W. H., & Deelman, B. G. (1984). Attentional deficits: The riddles of selectivity, speed and alertness. In Brooks, D. N. (Eds.) Closed Head Injury: Psychological, Social and Family Consequences, (pp. 74-107), Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press.
24. Van Zomeren, A. H., & Deelman, B. G. (1976). Differential effects of simple and choice reaction time after closed head injury. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 79, 81-90.
25. Weinberger, D. R., Berman, K. F., & Zec, R. F. (1986). Physiological dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia: I. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) evidence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 43, 114-125.
26. Zahn, T. P., Jacobsen, L. K., Gordon, C. T., McKenna, K., Frazier, J. A., & Rapoport, J. L. (1998). Attention deficits in childhood-onset schizophrenia: Reaction time studies. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 97-108.
27. Zahn, T. P., Kruesi, M. J. P., & Rapoport, J. L. (1991). Reaction time indices of attention deficits in boys with disruptive behavior disorders. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 19, 233-252.
28. Zahn, T. P. & Mirsky, A. F. (1999). Autonomic activity during task performance in adults with closed head injury. International Journal of Psychophysiology, in press.