Replication of a three-component solution for common measures of attention in HIV seropositive males

Attentional control and slowness of information processing after severe traumatic brain injury

“…With respect to neuropsychological assessment, it is well known that test results might be interpreted in many ways because a test never taps only one but a whole range of cognitive functions, requiring several different skills for completion [38,74]. The present study has contributed to the understanding of which scores from each test are related to different attentional mechanisms underlying performance (i.e.…”

Assessment of attention: Relationship between psychological testing and information processing approaches

“…To date, however, this type of research has not been undertaken in the area of attention. Thus, in the literature, researchers adopting the information processing approach prefer to use specifically defined experimental tasks to study the effects of brain damage on attention (e.g., Sergeant & Scholten, 1983;Shum, McFarland, Bain, & Humphries, 1990a), and clinicians continue to use conventional psychological tests to diagnosis attentional problems in braindamaged patients (e.g., Picano, Klusman, Hornbostel, & Moulton, 1992;Shum, McFarland, & Bain, 1990b).…”