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... assessing cognition in the healthy, the aging, the injured, and the malingering...
... assessing cognition in the healthy, the aging, the injured, and the malingering...
Our research focuses on assessing cognition and everyday life function in the healthy, the aging, the injured and the malingering. We develop, adapt, and test assessments that are first, reflective of one’s actual competence in daily life, and second, effective at dissociating participants based on both injury status, veracity, and severity. Through this work, I am contributing to the literature on how performance differs between those who have genuine impairment and those who malinger, how and why genuinely impaired individuals make errors in complex, everyday tasks, and how that information can be used to develop strategies for the prevention of these errors in the young, old, and impaired.
In the Assessing Cognition Lab at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga we:
assess everyday life attention errors in younger and older adults
examine visual attention to social comparison information on social media
develop assessment protocols to study mild and moderate traumatic brain injury in collegiate athletes
measure long-term effects of mild traumatic brain injury
develop capacity and infrastructure to conduct research in aging with community dwelling participants
foster an interprofessional network to reduce the incidence of falls
Check out the "Our Research" page to learn more!
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