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A continuous performance task, continuous performance test, or CPT, is any of several kinds of neuropsychological test that measures a person's sustained and selective attention. Sustained attention is the ability to maintain a consistent focus on some continuous activity or stimuli, and is associated with impulsivity. Selective attention is ...
The Test of Everyday Attention (TEA) is designed to measure attention in adults age 18 through 80 years. The test comprises 8 subsets that represent everyday tasks and has three parallel forms. [1] It assess three aspects of attentional functioning: selective attention, sustained attention, and mental shifting. [2]
In the 1990s, Weinberg and Brumback proposed a new disorder: "primary disorder of vigilance" (PVD). Characteristic symptoms of it were difficulty sustaining alertness and arousal, daydreaming, difficulty focusing attention, losing one's place in activities and conversation, slow completion of tasks and a kind personality. The most detailed case ...
Commission of errors at easy levels and success at harder levels; indication that student thinks the task is "easy" then cannot do it correctly; performance improves once the student realized that the task is more difficult than originally thought Sustained attention. Ability to focus on a task or situation despite distractions, fatigue or boredom
Transient attention is a short-term response to a stimulus that temporarily attracts or distracts attention. Researchers disagree on the exact amount of the human transient attention span, whereas selective sustained attention, also known as focused attention, is the level of attention that produces consistent results on a task over time.
Impairments resulting from deficits in self-regulation such as time management, inhibition, task initiation, and sustained attention [19] can include poor professional performance, relationship difficulties, and numerous health risks, [20] [21] collectively predisposing to a diminished quality of life [22] and a reduction in life expectancy.
The original version of the test was created by Brickenkamp (1981) in Germany as a cancellation task. [4] A meta-analysis, published in Personality and Individual Differences, found that adults have shown increasing scores in selective attention over the past three decades, as measured by the d2 Test of Attention. [5]
These three networks have been studied using experimental designs involving adults, children, and monkeys, with and without abnormalities of attention. [4] Research designs include the Stroop task [ 5 ] and flanker task , which study executive control with analysis techniques including event-related functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI).