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| Robinson-Boone, K. (1999). Attention in Adolescents Following Brain Injury. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 47-60. |
| This study investigated the effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on attention in an adolescent sample. Participants included ten adoloscents with TBI and ten with no history of neurological insult. Three tasks and a practice task were used to assess attentional skills (inhibition, sustained attention, and anticipation). Results of the study provided support for a difference between adolescences with TBI and adolescents with no TBI in attention. Examination of three different components of attention and their effect on adolescents with TBI revealed differences across the three components (reaction time, variability, and errors). In regards to reaction time the groups performed similarly on the three attentional tasks. Neither group showed a difference in variability of performance for the sustained attention task or the anticipation task. A significant difference was noted in variability of performance on the inhibition task. When examining the total errors for all three tasks, the group with TBI demonstrated a greater number of total errors and errors of omission than the control group. |
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