CONSCIOUSNESS-COGNITIVE DOMAINS

SUMMARY

1. ATTENTION
- Types: focused, sustained, selective, divided

2. MEMORY
- Types: visual, auditory, working, episodic, semantic, procedural

3. EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
- Definition: "those integrative cognitive processes that determine goal directed and purposeful behaviour and are superordinate in the orderly execution of daily life functions" (Cicerone et al. 2000)
- Functions: ability to formulate goals; to initiate behaviour; to anticipate the consequences of actions; to plan and organize behavior according to spatial, temporal, topical, or logical sequences; and to monitor and adapt behavior to fit a particular task or context (Cicerone et al. 2000)
- Components: initiation, processing speed, problem solving, planning

4. PERCEPTION/PRAXIS
- Definition: "the ability to organize, process, and interpret incoming visual information, tactile-kinesthetic information, or both, and to act appropriately on the basis of the information received" (Titus et al. 1991)
- Deficits: visuo-spatial, visuo-perceptual, unilateral neglect, inattention, apraxia, agnosia, prosopagnosia

5. LANGUAGE
- Aphasia: Broca's, Wernicke's, transcortical motor/sensory or mixed, conductive, global

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