PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visual Field, Frontal Lobe, Amyloid
22 Dec 2016
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Computerized tests: test of attentional performance (tap) pattern) Add the last two digits they heard. Paper and pencil tests: trail making test (tmt): to figure out if an injured soldier had a cognitive deficit (connect the dot kind of test) Psych 330 lecture 10 attention deficits and disorders. Doesn"t tell you what kind of deficit, only that someone has one. Alertness (a reaction test) may not be spatial attention. Attention shifting (symbolic location cue): spatial attention test. Flexibility (switching between target types): going back and forth between. Express saccades (attentional disengagement): when you take away the. Go-nogo task (to measure response suppression): target appears, press button and some targets are not supposed to respond; executive attention impairment makes them want to press on targets that are not supposed to react to. Crossmodal integration (visual-auditory): see an arrow up or down (go-nogo task) and high pitch and low pitch sounds.
