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Frontal lesions and sustained attention
Abstract
Neurological patients were presented with a succession of 2-11 stimuli which they were required to count, reporting the number in the series when it finished. The stimuli were binaural clicks, or pulses on the right or on the left index finger. Regardless of stimulus modality or lateralization, patients with lesions involving the right frontal lobe were impaired when the presentation rate was 1/sec. There was no corresponding impairment when the presentation rate was increased to 7/sec. It is argued that at slow rates when the task was monotonous patients with right-frontal lesions were less able than others to sustain attention voluntarily.
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“Depending on task demands, the PFC facilitates sustained attention on a single task (Wilkins et al., 1987) or manages rapid shifts in attention to accomplish multiple sequential tasks (Robbins, 2007).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wilkins, A. J., Shallice, T., & McCarthy, R.
- Affiliations
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- ORCID
- Wilkins, A.J.
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1987-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 359-365
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2056475598
- Cited by
- 450
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 5.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- SDL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- sustained attention, frontal lobe lesions, right frontal lobe, attentional control, presentation rate, stimulation rate, voluntary attention
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Brain Damage, Chronic, Dominance, Cerebral, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Male, Postoperative Complications, Psychosurgery, Temporal Lobe
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