Exploration of perceptual and motor inhibition in children with traumatic brain injury

Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Jun;112(3):667-79. doi: 10.2466/04.15.22.25.PMS.112.3.667-679.

Abstract

Perceptual and motor inhibition were examined using conflict resolution tasks for 12 children with traumatic brain injury and 24 matched controls. Direct comparisons of inhibition performances between the two groups showed a specific and disproportionate impairment of motor inhibition (compared with perceptual inhibition) for the children with traumatic brain injury, which suggests that inhibition processes might be differentially impaired in children after traumatic brain injury.

MeSH terms

  • Attention
  • Brain Injury, Chronic / diagnosis
  • Brain Injury, Chronic / psychology*
  • Child
  • Executive Function*
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality
  • Humans
  • Impulsive Behavior / diagnosis
  • Impulsive Behavior / psychology
  • Inhibition, Psychological*
  • Male
  • Neuropsychological Tests / statistics & numerical data
  • Orientation
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual*
  • Psychometrics / statistics & numerical data
  • Psychomotor Performance*
  • Reference Values
  • Reproducibility of Results