Sustained attention in traumatic brain injury (tbi) and healthy controls: Enhanced sensitivity with dual-task load

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 218-229

  Dockree, Paul M ^a   Bellgrove, Mark A ^a   O'Keeffe, Fiadhnait M ^a   Moloney, Pauline ^a   Aimola, Lina ^a   Carton, Simone ^b   Robertson, Ian H ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b The National Rehabilitation Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dual task; Prefrontal cortex; Sustained attention; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28644433763     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0079-x     Document Type: Article

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