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The ability to drive a vehicle is largely dependent upon the fast and reliable acquisition and analysis of a large number of visual information.
This is evaluated with three different tests of increasing difficulty:
• simple attention,
• divided attention,
• selective attention.
This program has two major clinical applications:
• to evaluate the ability of a subject to compensate a visual field deficit,
• to detect cognitive deficits that may result, for example, from brain infarction or Alzheimer disease
The subject indicates with a level the direction of an arrow appearing on the screen. Performance is evaluated from the percentage of correct responses and from the average response time.
The second phase of the exam involves two simultaneous tasks:
• one central task, identical to the first phase,
• an additional task of peripheral detection of an object appearing at random in the peripheral visual field.
Performance is also evaluated from the percentage of correct responses and from the average response time.
In the third phase, the peripheral task is made more difficult by the addition of visual distractors in the peripheral visual field.
The final report of the three tests includes:
• for simple attention: the number of correct responses
compared to the number of presentations and the average response time.
• for divided attention: the number of correct responses compared to the number of
presentations and the average response time for
central and peripheral tasks. Tests seen in the periphery are indicated in
green and in red if not.
• for selective attention (with distractors): the number of correct responses
compared to the number of presentations and the average response time for central and peripheral tasks.
As in the previous phase, the tests seen in the periphery are indicated in green and in red if not.