His stroke damaged the parietal lobe on the right side of his brain, the part that deals with the higher processing of attention.
Two studies showed that subjects with the low activity Met allele performed better on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and another study found an effect on processing speed and attention.
Speech- and articulator-specificity of the TMS-induced effects on auditory speech processing and their dependence on attention (Möttönen and Watkins 2009; Möttönen et al. 2013, 2014b) lend support for the view that TMS causes a focal disruption in the articulatory motor cortex, which affects speech processing by weakening its interaction with the auditory cortex.
Digit Symbol: measures psychomotor processing speed and attention.
The EMSE has been shown to be sensitive across a range of performance, to avoid the ceiling effect and that (even in its short form as it has been used here), the EMSE provides extended coverage of cognitive domains (extending on attention, memory, processing and executive function).
One double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial evaluated the efficacy of methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH) (up to 10 mg per day over four days) on attention, memory, behaviour, processing speed and psychomotor skills of children (n=10, aged 5 16 years) who had experienced a TBI.
This again addresses the issue that aphasic patients and healthy controls differ not only in terms of language processing, but also in the demands on attention and executive control, with aphasic patients almost invariably having to exert increased attention and cognitive control when processing verbal stimuli and perform linguistic tasks.
Based on the recent literature on attention, our finding suggests that processing fear-related stimuli exerts greater inhibitory responses on distractors relative to processing disgust-related stimuli.
No matter what the device, phone conversations appear to take a significant toll on attention and visual processing skills.
