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Test of Everyday Attention

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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TEA

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The Test of Everyday Attention (TEA) is a standardized and normed clinical battery for adults (18 years plus) that allows for comparison across different attentional capacities.

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TEA (Robertson, Ward, Ridgeway, & Nimmo-Smith, 1994) is a standardized and normed clinical battery for adults that allows for comparison across different attentional capacities. It was developed to measure different domains of attention, and was based on (a) theories of attention, (b) findings from neuroimaging and lesion studies of attention, and (c) an awareness of the limitations of existing neuropsychological measures when predicting attentional functioning in everyday life. The authors and other researchers have argued that the TEA was developed as a theoretically based and ecologically valid assessment that was able to better examine the different domains of attention. The TEA was based on Posner and Peterson’s (1990) model of attention, and includes...

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  1. Department of Pediatrics/Deptartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Memorial Hospital of RI Neurodevelopmental Center, 555 Prospect Street, 2860, Pawtucket, RI, USA

    Allison S. Evans

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Neurodevelopmental Center/ Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 555 Prospect Street, 2860, Pawtucket, RI, USA

    Andrew S. Preston

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

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  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

  4. Independent Practice, 564 M.O.B. East, 100 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA, 19096, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Evans, A.S., Preston, A.S. (2011). Test of Everyday Attention. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_1298

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