title: Reaction time and accuracy in individuals with aphasia during auditory vigilance tasks.
abstract: Research indicates that attentional deficits exist in aphasic individuals. However, relatively little is known about auditory vigilance performance in individuals with aphasia. The current study explores reaction time (RT) and accuracy in 10 aphasic participants and 10 nonbrain-damaged controls during linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory vigilance tasks. Findings indicate that the aphasic group was less accurate during both tasks than the control group, but was not slower in their accurate responses. Further examination of the data revealed variability in the aphasic participants' RT contributing to the lower accuracy scores.
authors.affiliation: Communication Disorders Program, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA. spejsl@langate.gsu.edu
authors.forename: Jacqueline S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Laures
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000503:physiopathology; D001037:Aphasia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000503:physiopathology; D018886:Aphasia, Conduction / Q000503:physiopathology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000503:physiopathology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*