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Test of Everyday Attention

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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 et al. 1996) 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 subtests designed to assess the...

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  1. Concord Comprehensive Neuropsychological Services, Concord, MA, USA

    Allison S. Evans

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill Pediatric Psychology, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Andrew Preston

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Correspondence to Allison S. Evans .

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Evans, A.S., Preston, A. (2018). Test of Everyday Attention. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1298

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