Failures of sustained attention in life, lab, and brain: Ecological validity of the SART

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2564-2570

  Smilek, Daniel ^a   Carriere, Jonathan S A ^a   Cheyne, J Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention failures; Attention Related Cognitive Errors Scale (ARCES); Cognitive failures; Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ); SART; Sustained attention; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; ATTENTION RELATED COGNITIVE ERRORS SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE FAILURES QUESTIONNAIRE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; MINDFUL AWARENESS OF ATTENTION SCALE LAPSES ONLY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SUSTAINED ATTENTION TO RESPONSE TASK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954458714     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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