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Keywords
Aphasia--Psychological aspects; Attention--Testing;
Abstract
This experiment assessed auditory comprehension in the presence of a divided attention task. Words and nonwords were embedded within the commands of the first subtest of the Revised Token Test (RTT) to comprise the divided attention RTT (dRTT). A statistically significant poor performance was found on the dRTT compared to the RTT. Further, the subjects' performance was found not to change from the beginning to the end of the dRTT suggesting that learning and fatigue were not meaningful variables in their performance. The position of the distractor (e.g., opposite the verb, color adjective, noun, or randomly placed) had mixed affect across subjects and requires further study. One subject seemed to apply a strategy of not responding to the distractor and actually increased his dRTT score compared to the RTT score. The data suggested that the aphasic subjects could complete a divided attention task and that careful analysis of individual performance may lead to greater understanding of the role of attention in aphasic subjects' listening abilities.
Year of Submission
1999
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Communicative Disorders
First Advisor
Carlin Hageman
Second Advisor
Joseph Smaldino
Third Advisor
Donald Schmits
Date Original
1999
Object Description
1 PDF file (66 leaves)
Copyright
©1999 Bruce DeWayne Bane
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bane, Bruce DeWayne, "A Divided Attention Task to Measure Functional Auditory Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia" (1999). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2004.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2004
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