Visual attention helps us to selectively process relevant information and is crucial in our everyday interactions with the environment. Not surprisingly, it is one of the cognitive domains that is most frequently affected by acquired brain injury. Reliable assessment of attention deficits is pivotal to neuropsychological examination and helps to optimize individual rehabilitation plans. Compared with conventional pen-and-paper tests, computerized tasks borrowed from the field of experimental psychology bring many benefits, but lab-based experimental setups cannot be easily incorporated in clinical practice. Light-weight and portable mobile tablet devices may facilitate the translation of computerized tasks to clinical settings. One such task is based on the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA), a mathematical model of visual attention. TVA-based paradigms have been widely used to investigate several aspects of visual attention in both fundamental and clinical research, and include measures for general processing capacity as well as stimulus-specific attentional parameters.

中文翻译：

---

鼓励神经心理学领域的数字技术：平板电脑设备上的视觉注意理论

视觉注意力可以帮助我们有选择地处理相关信息，对于我们与环境的日常互动至关重要。毫不奇怪，它是最常受到后天性脑损伤影响的认知领域之一。对注意力缺陷的可靠评估对神经心理学检查至关重要，并有助于优化个人康复计划。与传统的纸笔测试相比，从实验心理学领域借用的计算机化任务带来了许多好处，但是基于实验室的实验设置无法轻松地应用于临床实践。轻巧且便携式的移动平板设备可以促进将计算机化任务转换为临床设置。其中一项任务是基于视觉注意力理论（TVA），即视觉注意力的数学模型。