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TEA-Occ: counting, searching, and doing both

Three short parts that look like three separate tests. They are not. The first two exist to produce a baseline, and the third is the question.

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TEA-Occ is the occupational version of the Test of Everyday Attention. You count tones while ignoring others; you search a page of directory entries for a symbol; and then you do both at once. It needs working ears and you will normally be given a headset.

Part one: Count target tones, ignore the distractor
Part two: Search a directory page for marked entries
Part three: Both at the same time
Scoring: Accuracy on each, and what part three costs you

The number that matters

Your search rate in part two is your baseline. Your search rate in part three is the same job with a second one running underneath it. The gap between them — the dual-task decrement — is what the test is for, and it is why doing brilliantly on the first two parts and falling apart on the third is a worse result than three merely decent parts.