%0 Journal Article %1 Byrne1984 %A Byrne, J. M. %D 1984 %J Dev Med Child Neurol %K Brain Damage, Chronic; Cerebral Palsy; Child Development; Child, Preschool; Cognition Disorders; Discrimination Learning; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Humans; Male; Muscle Spasticity; Perceptual Psychological Tests; Quadriplegia; Visual Perception %N 3 %P 391--395 %T Cognitive-perceptual abilities of a neurologically impaired infant: an alternative assessment strategy. %V 26 %X A 26-month-old boy with quadriplegia, untestable using traditional developmental tests, was assessed using a visual-discrimination paradigm (i.e. habituation-dishabituation). The results were interpreted as evidence that this infant could visually attend to, and discriminate between photographic slides varying in shape and/or colour. It is suggested that this paradigm may eventually be used as an alternative clinical testing protocol for assessing the perceptual-cognitive abilities of CNS-damage infants.

@article{Byrne1984, abstract = {A 26-month-old boy with quadriplegia, untestable using traditional developmental tests, was assessed using a visual-discrimination paradigm (i.e. habituation-dishabituation). The results were interpreted as evidence that this infant could visually attend to, and discriminate between photographic slides varying in shape and/or colour. It is suggested that this paradigm may eventually be used as an alternative clinical testing protocol for assessing the perceptual-cognitive abilities of CNS-damage infants.}, added-at = {2014-07-19T19:13:09.000+0200}, author = {Byrne, J. M.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c0faf4632a513edced615d4fd14d5bf9/ar0berts}, groups = {public}, interhash = {cf72e5f06e92a5fa4e833b7d118db6c2}, intrahash = {c0faf4632a513edced615d4fd14d5bf9}, journal = {Dev Med Child Neurol}, keywords = {Brain Damage, Chronic; Cerebral Palsy; Child Development; Child, Preschool; Cognition Disorders; Discrimination Learning; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Humans; Male; Muscle Spasticity; Perceptual Psychological Tests; Quadriplegia; Visual Perception}, month = Jun, number = 3, pages = {391--395}, pmid = {6734956}, timestamp = {2014-07-19T19:13:09.000+0200}, title = {Cognitive-perceptual abilities of a neurologically impaired infant: an alternative assessment strategy.}, username = {ar0berts}, volume = 26, year = 1984 }