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. 2014 Apr 30;8:269. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00269

Table 1.

Summary table of studies that have investigated time perception in TBI patients.

References Patients Clinical characteristics Tasks Condition Durations Neuropsychological tasksa Effect size
Meyers and Levin, 1992 Disoriented TBI = 10 18 severe, 5 moderate, 11 mild; PTA = 16; TPI = 37 days Time reproduction Simple 5, 10, and 15 s NA 5 s d = 1.01b,c
Oriented TBI = 24 Verbal estimation 10 s d = 0.46b,c
Controls = 12 15 s d = 0.52b,c
Perbal et al., 2003 TBI = 15 GCS = 6.4; PTA = 88; TPI = 11 months Time reproduction Control counting 5, 14, and 38 s Short-term memory = forward digit and spatial span, Corkin-free interval; Working memory = backward digit and spatial span, Corkin-concurrent interval; Episodic memory = Grober and Buschke task NA
Controls = 15 Time production Concurrent reading
Schmitter-Edgecombe and Rueda, 2008 TBI = 27 14 severe and 13 moderate; PTA = 24.11; TPI = 41.93 days Verbal estimation Concurrent reading 10, 25, 45, and 60 s Attention/speeded processing = Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Trail Making Test—A; Verbal memory = Rey Verbal Learning Test; Visual memory = 7/24 Spatial Recall Test; Executive functions = Trial Making Test—B, Letter Number Sequencing subtest from the WAIS-III, Controlled Oral Word Association Test 10 s d = 0.29b
Controls = 27 25 s d = 0.51b
45 s d = 0.91b
60 s d = 0.96b
Anderson and Schmitter-Edgecombe, 2011 TBI = 15 8 severe and 7 moderate; PTA = 23.27; TPI = 432.13 days Verbal estimation Concurrent reading 10, 25, 45, and 60 s Attention/Speeded processing = Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Trial Making Test-A; Episodic memory = Rey Auditory; Verbal Learning Test, 7/24 Spatial Recall Test; Executive functions = Letter Number; Sequencing subtest from the WAIS-III, Controlled Oral Word Association Test η2 = 0.16d
Controls = 15
Mioni et al., 2012 TBI = 18 18 severe; GCS = 6.77; PTA = 11.78; TPI = 24.50 Time reproduction Concurrent reading 4, 9, and 14 s Attention = Stroop; Working memory = N-back 4 s d = 0.05b
Controls = 18 9 s d = 0.05b
14 s d = 0.04b
Mioni et al., 2013a TBI = 27 27 severe; GCS = 7; PTA = 62.81; TPI = 30.15 Time discrimination Simple Standard duration 500 and 1300 ms Attention = Stroop; Working memory = N-back 500 ms d = 1.5e
Controls = 27 1300 ms d = 0.75e
Mioni et al., 2013b TBI = 15 15 severe; GCS = 6.3; TPI = 31.40 Time reproduction Simple 500, 1000, and 1500 ms Attention = Divided attention, Go-Nogo; Working memory = N-back, Digit span backward; Executive functions = Verbal fluency, Wisconsin Cards Sorting Test Time reproductionb: 500 ms d = 0.47; 1000 ms d = 0.17; 1500 d = 0.23 Time productionb: 500 ms d = 0.05; 1000 ms d = 0.81; 1500 d = 0.06 Time discriminatione: 500 ms d = 0.88; 1000 ms d = 0.72; 1500 d = 0.62
Controls = 15 Time production
Time discrimination

GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale (Teasdale and Jennett, 1974; <8 = severe TBI); TPI, Time Post Injury; PTA, Post Traumatic Amnesia (Mean days); NA, not available; Simple, temporal task alone; Control counting, count aloud for the stimulus duration; Concurrent reading, temporal task + non-temporal task.

a

References to neuropsychological tasks are not reported because the authors referred to different versions of the tasks; please refer to the specific articles for the appropriate references.

b

Analyses were conducted on RATIO.

c

Analyses were conducted between TBI patients (oriented and disoriented TBI together) and controls.

d

Analyses were conducted on RATIO as reported in the original paper.

e

Analyses were conducted on proportion of correct responses.