Control of Attention in Rhesus Monkeys Measured Using a Flanker Task

Hassett, Thomas C.; Hampton, Robert R.

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“…With less than one session of training, undergraduates make less than 3% errors on conflict trials ( Washburn 1994 ). Even in the flanker task, which is easier than most Stroop versions, monkeys make about 20% errors with incongruent flankers even after considerable practice ( Hassett and Hampton 2022 ). Humans seem to have much greater capacity to control their responses in the face of conflict than other primates, at least in this task.…”

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The Evolution and Future Development of Attention Networks

Posner

2023

J. Intell.

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The goal of this paper is to examine how the development of attention networks has left many important issues unsolved and to propose possible directions for solving them by combining human and animal studies. The paper starts with evidence from citation mapping that indicates attention has played a central role in integrating cognitive and neural studies into Cognitive Neuroscience. The integration of the fields depends in part upon similarities and differences in performance over a wide variety of animals. In the case of exogenous orienting of attention primates, rodents and humans are quite similar, but this is not so with executive control. In humans, attention networks continue to develop at different rates during infancy and childhood and into adulthood. From age four on, the Attention Network Test (ANT) allows measurement of individual differences in the alerting, orienting and executive networks. Overt and covert orienting do overlap in their anatomy, but there is evidence of some degree of functional independence at the cellular level. The attention networks frequently work together with sensory, memory and other networks. Integration of animal and human studies may be advanced by examining common genes involved in individual attention networks or their integration with other brain networks. Attention networks involve widely scattered computation nodes in different brain areas, both cortical and subcortical. Future studies need to attend to the white matter that connects them and the direction of information flow during task performance.

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Section: Evolution Of Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution and Future Development of Attention Networks

Posner

2023

J. Intell.

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Control of Attention in Rhesus Monkeys Measured Using a Flanker Task

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The Evolution and Future Development of Attention Networks

The Evolution and Future Development of Attention Networks

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