Development of attentional networks in childhood

Rueda, M. Rosario; Fan, Jin; McCandliss, Bruce D.; Halparin, Jessica D; Gruber, Dana B; Lercari, Lisha Pappert; Posner, Michael I.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.12.012

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“…Again, no sex-related differences were observed. The results of both studies coincided with those obtained in prior research, according to which selective and sustained attention improves up to 10 years of age, when it stabilises, and then increases again between ages 12 and 15, whereas executive control and inhibition improve up to 6-7 years and then stabilises (Crespo-Eguílaz, Narbona, Peralta, & Repáraz, 2006;Jiménez et al, 2012;Kanaka et al, 2008;Klenberg, Korkman, & Lahti-Nuutila, 2001;Lehman et al, 2009;Lin, Hsiao, & Chen, 1999;Rueda et al, 2004). Said results, therefore, provide evidence about the capacity of the DiViSA-UAM to discriminate between different age groups.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Also in line with prior anales de psicología, 2015, vol. 31, nº 1 (enero) research (Crespo-Eguílaz et al, 2006;Jiménez et al, 2012;Kanaka et al, 2008;Klenberg et al, 2001;Lehman et al, 2009;Lin et al, 1999;Quiroga et al, 2011;Rueda et al, 2004;Santacreu et al, 2010), all three tests coincided in indicating significant differences in attention performance linked to age. More specifically, taking as a reference the measures of global attention from the three tests (DiV-OA, DPT-CR, and d2-CP), the DiViSA-UAM and the Faces-DPT registered a progressive and significant increase in attention performance during the different grades, whereas the d2 only registered said increase as significant up to the 5 th grade.…”

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Convergent validity of the measures of attention and impulsivity in the Trees: Simple Visual Discrimination Test (DiViSA-UAM). [Validez convergente de las medidas de atención e impulsividad del Test de Discriminación Visual Simple de Árboles (DiViSA-UAM)]

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Título: Validez convergente de las medidas de atención e impulsividad del Test de Discriminación Visual Simple de Árboles (DiViSA-UAM).Resumen: El Test de Discriminación Visual Simple de Árboles (DiViSA-UAM) constituye una prueba objetiva de evaluación de la atención y la impulsividad en niños de edades comprendidas entre los 6 y los 12 años. El presente estudio tuvo por objeto complementar los datos de validez recabados en estudios anteriores, analizando la evidencia de validez convergente de las medidas del DiViSA-UAM en relación con otros instrumentos ya consolidados en la evaluación de la atención y el control inhibitorio en niños: el Test de Percepción de Diferencias 'Caras' y el Test de Atención d2. A tal fin, se administraron los instrumentos a una muestra conformada por 111 alumnos de educación primaria (46 niñas y 65 niños), de entre 8 y 12 años. El análisis de correlaciones arrojó valores acordes con lo esperado entre los índices de las tres pruebas. Conforme a lo observado en estudios anteriores, las tres pruebas convergieron en identificar un incremento progresivo en el rendimiento atencional entre los 8 y los 12 años, así como estabilidad en el control de la impulsividad y ausencia de diferencias relativas al sexo. Se discuten las ventajas potenciales del DiViSA-UAM derivadas de su formato de aplicación y su mayor facilidad de ejecución. Palabras clave: DiViSA-UAM; atención; impulsividad; tests informatizados; validez convergente. Abstract:The Trees: Simple Visual Discrimination Test (DiViSA-UAM) is an objective test to assess attention and impulsivity in children aged between 6 and 12 years. The aim of this study was to supplement the validity data obtained in prior research, analyzing the evidence of convergent validity of the measures of the DiViSA-UAM in relation to other, already wellestablished, instruments for assessing attention and inhibitory control in children: the 'Faces', Differences Perception Test and the d2 Test of Attention. To this end, the instruments were administered to a sample of 111 students from primary education (46 girls and 65 boys) between the ages of 8 and 12 years. The correlation analysis showed values in line with expectations among the indices of the three tests. Similarly to what has been observed in prior research, the three tests coincided in identifying a progressive increase in attention performance between the ages of 8 and 12, as well as stability in impulsivity control and the absence of sex-related differences. We discuss the potential advantages of the DiViSA-UAM derived from its application format and its greater ease of execution.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Convergent validity of the measures of attention and impulsivity in the Trees: Simple Visual Discrimination Test (DiViSA-UAM). [Validez convergente de las medidas de atención e impulsividad del Test de Discriminación Visual Simple de Árboles (DiViSA-UAM)]

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“…Younger children in the range of 5-12 years are more susceptible to distractions from irrelevant information across a broad range of auditory and visual tasks than adolescents and young adults (e.g., Gomes, Molholm, Christodoulou, Ritter, & Cowan, 2000;Ridderinkhof, van der Molen, Band, & Bashore, 1997;Rueda et al, 2004;Waszak, Li, & Hommel, 2010). For instance, in the visual domain, the Flanker task (Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974) is commonly used to investigate developmental changes in attentional control.…”

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“…In the present intensity-and attention-modulated dichotic listening paradigm, executive attention is needed to resolve conflicts between exogenous (bottom-up) orienting when attention is captured automatically by the perceptually more salient stimuli and endogenous (top-down) orienting when attention is focused voluntarily on either ear. Developmental studies have shown a lack of executive attention in early childhood and progressive improvements during child development in visual (e.g., Ridderinkhof et al, 1997;Rueda et al, 2004;Waszak et al, 2010) and auditory attention This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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Development of attentional control of verbal auditory perception from middle to late childhood: Comparisons to healthy aging.

Passow¹,

Müller²,

Westerhausen³

et al. 2013

Developmental Psychology

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Multitalker situations confront listeners with a plethora of competing auditory inputs, and hence require selective attention to relevant information, especially when the perceptual saliency of distracting inputs is high. This study augmented the classical forced-attention dichotic listening paradigm by adding an interaural intensity manipulation to investigate developmental differences in the interplay between perceptual saliency and attentional control during auditory processing between early and middle childhood. We found that older children were able to flexibly focus on instructed auditory inputs from either the right or the left ear, overcoming the effects of perceptual saliency. In contrast, younger children implemented their attentional focus less efficiently. Direct comparisons of the present data with data from a recently published study of younger and older adults from our group suggest that younger children and older adults show similar levels of performance. Critically, follow-up comparisons revealed that younger children's performance restrictions reflect difficulties in attentional control only, whereas older adults' performance deficits also reflect an exaggerated reliance on perceptual saliency. We conclude that auditory attentional control improves considerably from middle to late childhood and that auditory attention deficits in healthy aging cannot be reduced to a simple reversal of child developmental improvements.

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“…However, the majority of this research has used multidetermined tasks to assess these abilities, and the interpretation of the results lacks an explicit theoretical backdrop to better understand the origin of the diffi culties observed. In the present study, we used the Child Attention Network Task (Child ANT; Rueda et al 2004 ) to assess the effi ciency of the alerting, orienting and executive control networks. We compared the performance of 25 preterm children (gestational age ≤ 32 weeks) to 25 full-term children, all between 5½ and 6½ years of age.…”

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Attentional networks efficiency in preterm children

Pizzo

Urben

Linden

et al. 2009

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Recent studies have reported specifi c executive and attentional defi cits in preterm children. However, the majority of this research has used multidetermined tasks to assess these abilities, and the interpretation of the results lacks an explicit theoretical backdrop to better understand the origin of the diffi culties observed. In the present study, we used the Child Attention Network Task (Child ANT; Rueda et al. 2004 ) to assess the effi ciency of the alerting, orienting and executive control networks. We compared the performance of 25 preterm children (gestational age ≤ 32 weeks) to 25 full-term children, all between 5½ and 6½ years of age. Results showed that, as compared to full-term children, preterm children were slower on all conditions of the Child ANT and had a specifi c defi cit in executive control abilities. We also observed a signifi cantly higher correlation between the orienting and executive control networks in the preterm group, suggesting less differentiation of these two networks in this population. ( JINS , 2010, 16, 130-137.)

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Development of attentional networks in childhood

Cited by 1,140 publications

References 37 publications

Convergent validity of the measures of attention and impulsivity in the Trees: Simple Visual Discrimination Test (DiViSA-UAM). [Validez convergente de las medidas de atención e impulsividad del Test de Discriminación Visual Simple de Árboles (DiViSA-UAM)]

Convergent validity of the measures of attention and impulsivity in the Trees: Simple Visual Discrimination Test (DiViSA-UAM). [Validez convergente de las medidas de atención e impulsividad del Test de Discriminación Visual Simple de Árboles (DiViSA-UAM)]

Development of attentional control of verbal auditory perception from middle to late childhood: Comparisons to healthy aging.

Attentional networks efficiency in preterm children

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