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In this study, six outpatients with quadriplegia and 12 able-bodied controls were administered a dichotic listening task while auditory evoked response data and auditory threshold data were recorded. There were no differences between groups in terms of auditory threshold or auditory evoked responses. However, the outpatient quadriplegic group was more successful than the able-bodied controls in performing the dichotic listening task at one but not all levels of complexity. Results suggest that differences in cognitive processing ability between spinal cord injured and able-bodied individuals may reflect higher level motivational attention concentration differences rather than more basic auditory and neurophysiologic processing differences.

Langue : ANGLAIS

Identifiant basis : 1986000840