Conjunctive Continuous Performance Task (CCPT)-A pure measure of sustained attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2584-2591

  Shalev, Lilach ^a   Ben Simon, Anat ^b   Mevorach, Carmel ^c   Cohen, Yoav ^b   Tsal, Yehoshua ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b National Institute for Testing and Evaluation Jerusalem   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention deficits; Continuous Performance Task (CPT); Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONJUNCTIVE CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TASK; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DIVERGENT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960163308     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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