Research

Research in the lab seeks to improve our understanding of the cognitive and emotional consequences of sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury in order to improve assessment and treatment methods.


We are interested in improving the assessment of sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury through improving existing assessment tools and procedures and developing new indices and instruments.

Recent Lab Publications

Karr, J.E., Zuccato, B., Ingram, E., Mcauley, T., Merker, B., & Abeare, C.A. (2022). The Post-Concussion Symptom Scale: Normative Data for Adolescent Student-Athletes Stratified by Gender and Preexisting Conditions. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. DOI:  10.1177/03635465221131987

Ali, S., Crisan, I., Abeare, C.A., & Erdodi, L.A. (2022). Cross-Cultural Performance Validity Testing: Managing False Positives in Examinees with Limited English Proficiency. Developmental Neuropsychology, 47(1), DOI:  10.1080/87565641.2022.2105847

Karr, J.E., Zuccato, B.G., Ingram, E., Considine, C., Merker, B., & Abeare, C.A. (2022). More than Total Symptom Severity: Identifying Subtypes of Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms using Normative Data. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 37(6). DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acac060.016

Cutler, L., Greenacre, M., Abeare, C.A., Sirianni, C., Roth, R.M., Erdodi, L.A. (2022). Multivariate models provide an effective psychometric solution to the variability in classification accuracy of D-KEFS Stroop performance validity cutoffs. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2022.2073914

Freedman, E.G., Abeare, C.A., Kender, R.G., Vernagus, R., & Wrobel, T.A. (2022). Effects of Tonality, Contour, Pitch Intervals, and Hemisphere on the Representation of Melodic Information. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. DOI: 10.4324/9781315782416-237

Nussbaum, S., May, N., Cutler, L., Abeare, C.A., Watson, M., & Erdodi, L.A. (2022). Failing Performance Validity Cutoffs on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) Is Specific, but Insensitive to Non-Credible Responding. Developmental Neuropsychology, 47(1). 10.1080/87565641.2022.2038602

Considine, C., Korcsog, K., & Abeare, C.A. (2022). “Time” for a new test: Piloting a novel measure of time perception and estimation ability, the Brief Estimate of Seconds Test (BEST). Psychology & Neuroscience, 15(1). 10.1037/pne0000283

Abeare, C.A., An, K., Tyson, B., Holcomb, M., May, N., & Erdodi, L.A. (2021). The emotion word fluency test as an embedded performance validity indicator – Alone and in a multivariate validity composite. Applied Neuropsychology Child, 11(13), 1-12. 10.1080/21622965.2021.1939027

Cutler, L., Abeare, C.A., Messa, I., Holcomb, M., & Erdodi, L.A. (2021). This will only take a minute: Time cutoffs are superior to accuracy cutoffs on the forced choice recognition trial of the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test -Revised. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 29(1). 10.1080/23279095.2021.1884555

Messa, I., Korcsog, K., & Abeare, C.A. (2020). An updated review of the prevalence of invalid performance on the Immediate Post-Concussion and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT). The Clinical Neuropsychologist. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2020.1866676

Sirianni, C., Abeare, C. A., Ali, S., Razvi, P., Kennedy, A., Pyne, S. R., & Erdodi, L. A. (2020). The V-5 provides quick, accurate and cross-culturally valid measures of psychiatric symptoms. Psychiatry Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113651

Abeare, C. A., Erdodi, L. A., Messa, I., Terry, D. P., Panenka, W. J., Iverson, G. L., & Silverberg, N. D. (2020). Development of Embedded Performance Validity Indicators in the NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery. 33(1), 90-96. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000958

Abeare, C. A., Hurtubise, J., Cutler, L., Sirianni, C., Brantuo, M. A., Makhzoum, N., Erdodi, L. A. (2020). Introducing a forced choice recognition trial to the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test – Revised. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2020.1779348

Erdodi, L. A., Korcsog, K., Considine, C., Casey, J. E., Scoboria, A., & Abeare, C. A. (2020). Introducing the ImPACT-5: An Empirically Derived Multivariate Validity Composite. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000576

Erdodi, L. A., Sabelli, A., An, K., Hastings, M., McCoy, C., & Abeare, C. A. (2020). Introducing a Five-Variable Psychiatric Screener based on the Visual Analog Scale (V-5). Psychology and Neuroscience, 13(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1037/pne0000201