Journal article
Automatic Process Development Following Severe Closed Head Injury
Neuropsychology, Vol.11(2), pp.296-308
04/1997
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109748
PMID: 9110336
Abstract
Automatic process development was investigated in a closed head injury (CHI) population. Ten severe CHI participants (>1 year postinjury) and 10 matched controls completed consistent mapping (CM) and varied mapping (VM) semantic-category memory search tasks. In VM search, despite a similar pattern of serial memory search, the CHI participants responded slower than controls and exhibited slower memory search rates throughout practice (1, 800 trials). In CM search, after extensive practice (1, 800 trials) both groups showed the performance characteristics indicative of automatic process development, that is, near-zero slopes and large reductions in response times. However, the CHI participants were slower to automatize the task. These results indicate that for memory-based search tasks the effects of a CHI may slow down the speed with which automatic processes develop but that CHI participants can acquire and use automatic processes in task performance.
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- Title
- Automatic Process Development Following Severe Closed Head Injury
- Creators
- Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe - Department of Psychology, Washington State UniversityWendy A Rogers - Department of Psychology, University of Georgia
- Publication Details
- Neuropsychology, Vol.11(2), pp.296-308
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Identifiers
- 99900547045601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article