Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networks
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Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networks. / Fan, Jin; McCandliss, Bruce D; Sommer-Blöchl, Tobias; Raz, Amir; Posner, Michael I.
in: J COGNITIVE NEUROSCI, Jahrgang 14, Nr. 3, 01.04.2002, S. 340-7.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networks
AU - Fan, Jin
AU - McCandliss, Bruce D
AU - Sommer-Blöchl, Tobias
AU - Raz, Amir
AU - Posner, Michael I
PY - 2002/4/1
Y1 - 2002/4/1
N2 - In recent years, three attentional networks have been defined in anatomical and functional terms. These functions involve alerting, orienting, and executive attention. Reaction time measures can be used to quantify the processing efficiency within each of these three networks. The Attention Network Test (ANT) is designed to evaluate alerting, orienting, and executive attention within a single 30-min testing session that can be easily performed by children, patients, and monkeys. A study with 40 normal adult subjects indicates that the ANT produces reliable single subject estimates of alerting, orienting, and executive function, and further suggests that the efficiencies of these three networks are uncorrelated. There are, however, some interactions in which alerting and orienting can modulate the degree of interference from flankers. This procedure may prove to be convenient and useful in evaluating attentional abnormalities associated with cases of brain injury, stroke, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit disorder. The ANT may also serve as an activation task for neuroimaging studies and as a phenotype for the study of the influence of genes on attentional networks.
AB - In recent years, three attentional networks have been defined in anatomical and functional terms. These functions involve alerting, orienting, and executive attention. Reaction time measures can be used to quantify the processing efficiency within each of these three networks. The Attention Network Test (ANT) is designed to evaluate alerting, orienting, and executive attention within a single 30-min testing session that can be easily performed by children, patients, and monkeys. A study with 40 normal adult subjects indicates that the ANT produces reliable single subject estimates of alerting, orienting, and executive function, and further suggests that the efficiencies of these three networks are uncorrelated. There are, however, some interactions in which alerting and orienting can modulate the degree of interference from flankers. This procedure may prove to be convenient and useful in evaluating attentional abnormalities associated with cases of brain injury, stroke, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit disorder. The ANT may also serve as an activation task for neuroimaging studies and as a phenotype for the study of the influence of genes on attentional networks.
KW - Adult
KW - Analysis of Variance
KW - Attention
KW - Cognition Disorders
KW - Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
KW - Female
KW - Head Injuries, Closed
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Neuropsychological Tests
KW - Orientation
KW - Psychomotor Performance
KW - Reproducibility of Results
U2 - 10.1162/089892902317361886
DO - 10.1162/089892902317361886
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 11970796
VL - 14
SP - 340
EP - 347
JO - J COGNITIVE NEUROSCI
JF - J COGNITIVE NEUROSCI
SN - 0898-929X
IS - 3
ER -