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Sustained Attention of Adults with Mental Retardation.
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Tomporowski, Phillip D.; Allison, Pamela – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1988
The sustained attention of 23 young adults with mild mental retardation and nonretarded subjects was assessed. Findings suggested that the sustained attention of the retarded differs from that of the nonretarded on those vigilance tasks that place demands on memory abilities. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Memory
Effects of Target Probability and Memory Demands on the Vigilance of Adults with and without Mental Retardation.
Tomporowski, Phillip D.; Tinsley, Veronica – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
The vigilance of young adults with and without mild mental retardation (MR) was compared, with subjects performing two memory demanding, cognitively based tests. The vigilance decrement of MR adults declined more rapidly than did the vigilance of non-MR adults, due to an interaction between target detectability and response bias, and poor target…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Memory