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attention CONCEPT
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used to describe any number of cognitive processes, organized as top-down or bottom-up, goal-directed or stimulus-driven, and more, but generally reflecting an interplay between cognitive and sensory systems.

Definition contributed by Anonymous

Tasks that are asserted to measure attention

Task Contrast Measure
global-local task
  • identification of global feature versus identification of local feature
Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale
  • attention to daily life
Barratt Impulsiveness Scale
  • impulsiveness
Mindstrong for Regulation of Cognition
  • attention data
P300 BCI
  • ERP amplitude
  • ERP latency
Montreal Cognitive Assessment
  • Total score
target detection task
  • percent detected
Distraction paradigm (capture)
  • distracted RT minus non-distracted RT
dual-task paradigm
  • dual task RT minus single task RT
Spatial cuing paradigm
  • eye movement reaction time
adolescent symptom inventory
  • ADHD Inattentive - Severity Score
numerosity estimation task
  • high minus low load conditions
  • number of distractors
  • number of items to be counted (past subitizing threshold)
dichotic listening task
  • degree of association between unattended and attended
Color Trails Test
  • consistent - inconsistent
immediate memory task
  • proportion of correct to incorrect responses
delayed memory task
  • proportion of correct to incorrect responses
digit cancellation task
  • distraction minus standard

Term BIBLIOGRAPHY

A taxonomy of external and internal attention.
Chun MM, Golomb JD, Turk-Browne NB
Annual review of psychology (Annu Rev Psychol)
2011
Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control.
MacDonald AW 3rd, Cohen JD, Stenger VA, Carter CS
(Science)
2000 Jun 9
The attention system of the human brain.
Posner MI, Petersen SE
Annual review of neuroscience (Annu Rev Neurosci)
1990
Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain.
Corbetta M, Shulman GL
Nature reviews. Neuroscience (Nat Rev Neurosci)
2002 Mar