Attention Deficits in Stroke Patients: The Role of Lesion Characteristics, Time from Stroke, and Concomitant Neuropsychological Deficits

Table 3

Attention performances for healthy subjects and the entire sample of patients and separately for right and left brain damaged patients (). Note that the mean RTs refer to RTs to each test, while errors refer to false responses in the Go-No Go test and omissions in the Divided Attention task.

	Patients with RHL ()				Patients with LHL ()				Healthy subjects ()
	Alertness		Go-No Go	Divided Attention	Alertness		Go-No Go	Divided Attention	Alertness		Go-No Go	Divided Attention
	Without warning	With warning			Without warning	With warning			Without warning	With warning
RTs (means)	379	336	638	787	314	287	641	724	300	291	608	724
SD	306	124	153	218	191	141	200	176	51	61	83	79
Errors (mean)	—	—	4.7	10.9	—	—	3.3	5.0	—	—	1.6	3.2
SD	—	—	5.9	7.4	—	—	3.5	4.0	—	—	2.6	2.8