Citation

Cremona-Meteyard SL, Clark CR, Wright MJ, Geffen GM. Neuropsychologia 1992; 30(2): 123-132.

Affiliation

Psychology Department, University of Queensland, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1560891

Abstract

The ability to orient visual attention covertly was studied in 11 patients who had suffered a moderate or severe closed head injury (CHI) at least 1 year previously. Their performance was compared to nine matched controls using a cued reaction time (RT) task which measured the RT benefit of valid directional cueing and the RT cost of miscueing. The CHI and control groups did not differ in overall RT. Relative to controls, the CHI group showed normal cost but hardly any benefit, indicating that the normal capacity to pre-align attention with a cued location was impaired.

Language: en