title: Effects of training in monitoring accuracy on processing speed in mental retardation.
abstract: Monitoring accuracy during choice RT allows subjects to maintain fast, safe RT bands and avoid overly fast, unsafe RT bands. 5 retarded adults received trial-by-trial feedback on accuracy over a number of sessions to train monitoring of accuracy and to improve RT performance. Training was introduced according to a multiple-baseline-across-subjects (with reversal) design. Training had no significant effect on subsequent RT performance, suggesting that inefficient monitoring of accuracy may be a structural characteristic of mental retardation.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brewer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011930:Reaction Time