The Relation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury to Chronic Lapses of Attention |
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| Authors: | Matthew B Pontifex Steven P Broglio Eric S Drollette Mark R Scudder Chris R Johnson Phillip M Oapos;Connor |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Kinesiology , Michigan State University;2. School of Kinesiology , University of Michigan;3. Department of Kinesiology and Community Health , University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign |
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| Abstract: | We assessed the extent to which failures in sustained attention were associated with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) deficits in cognitive control among college-age young adults with and without a history of sport-related concussion. Participants completed the ImPACT computer-based assessment and a modified flanker task. Results indicated that a history of mTBI, relative to healthy controls, was associated with inferior overall flanker task performance with a greater number of omission errors and more frequent sequentially occurring omission errors. Accordingly, these findings suggest that failures in the ability to maintain attentional vigilance may, in part, underlie mTBI-related cognition deficits. |
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| Keywords: | cognitive control concussion sustained attention vigilance |
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