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The Trail Making Test is a neuropsychological test of visual attention and task switching. It has two parts, in which the subject is instructed to connect a set of 25 dots as quickly as possible while maintaining accuracy. [ 1 ]
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]
The Benton Visual Retention Test is composed of 3 sets, or forms, of 10 designs (each 8.5 × 5.5 in.) that measure the examinee's visual and memory abilities as well as a set of alternate designs for repeated tests. [4] The examinee is given a booklet containing 10 blank pages on which they reproduce the designs.
To test visual selective attention, a map search task was used, in which participant must identify target symbols from competing distractors. Results suggested that visual selective attention in DLB was more significantly impaired than AD, although AD patients were significantly more impaired than healthy controls. [ 12 ]
Generally, the test is 21.6 minutes long and is presented as a simple, yet boring, computer game. The test is used to measure a number of variables involving the test taker's response to either a visual or auditory stimulus. These measurements are then compared to the measurements of a group of people without attention disorders who took the T ...
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]
Covert attention involves mental focus or attention to an object without significant eye movement, and is the predominant area of interest when using the Posner cueing task for research. By making 80% trials valid and 20% trials invalid, Posner encourages covert shifts of attention to take place in response to cueing.