Reliability and validity of the virtual reality lateralized attention test in assessing hemispatial neglect in right-hemisphere stroke

Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 430-441

  Buxbaum, Laurel J ^a   Dawson, Amanda M ^a   Linsley, Drew ^a  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Hemispatial neglect; Right hemisphere stroke; Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; VIRTUAL REALITY LATERALIZED ATTENTION TEST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; EGO; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOUCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REALITY TESTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871701829     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028674     Document Type: Article

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