Abstract: The clinical assessment of attention depends on three primary sources of information: (1) direct behavioral observation and measurement; (2) psychometric tests designed to measure other cognitive functions (e.g., intellectual measures), which provide indirect information about attention, and (3) neurocognitive tests developed specifically to assess attention and its underlying component processes. As attention is a multifaceted process, the assessment of attention requires that the clinician obtains information about the characteristics of the ...
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Cognitive psychology