On the origins and evolution of the Attention Network Tests

Almeida, Rafael de; Faria-Jr, Aydamari; Klein, Raymond M.

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.028

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“…A number of new versions have been inspired by this test which either add additional measurements or extended its applications to different populations. The ANTI, with the “I” standing for “interaction,” is the second most popular version of the ANT (next to the original), and was introduced to investigate the interaction between alerting and orienting (Callejas et al, 2004; de Souza Almeida et al, 2021). Where the standard test uses visual cues in both the alerting and orienting conditions, this task uses an auditory tone to alert participants.…”

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“…Other versions have also been developed with the intention of being more engaging for specific populations, including the Child‐ANT, which uses pictures of cartoon fish instead of arrows (Rueda et al, 2004) and AttentionTrip, which requires participants to steer a spaceship through a tunnel while shooting at invaders (Klein et al, 2017). For an in‐depth review of the evolution of the ANT and its variants, see de Souza Almeida et al (2021).…”

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“…The different cueing conditions are displayed in section (a), the different types of flanker targets are presented in section (b), and a typical trial is presented in section (c), with durations listed below for specific populations, including the Child-ANT, which uses pictures of cartoon fish instead of arrows (Rueda et al, 2004) and AttentionTrip, which requires participants to steer a spaceship through a tunnel while shooting at invaders (Klein et al, 2017). For an in-depth review of the evolution of the ANT and its variants, see de Souza Almeida et al (2021). Fan et al (2002) proposed three ideas for how the ANT could be implemented in future research to improve our understanding of attention.…”

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Lifestyle factors and their impact on the networks of attention

McCormick

2021

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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In 2002, Fan and his colleagues developed the Attention Network Test (ANT), a cognitive tool that provides a score for each of the attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive functioning). Since publication, this study has been cited over 3 500 times. The authors state one of the indicated uses of this tool is to measure how different interventions, both behavioral and pharmacological, influence the networks of attention. The present review focuses on this premise and investigates how various aspects of lifestyle differently impact the networks of attention.Whether trying to optimize the attentional networks to improve cognitive performance, or to prevent the cognitive decline that occurs with age, this review summarizes what practices promote efficiency within the alerting, orienting, and executive functioning networks. The specific areas of lifestyle this review focuses on are meditation, exercise, drug use, sleep, and environmental or social factors.

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2021

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…Desde un modelo conexionista, conceptualizan la existencia de tres redes atencionales: la red atencional de vigilancia, la red atencional de orientación y la red atencional de control (Posner & Rothbart, 2004Wang & Fan, 2007). Cada una de estas redes tiene un correlato neural específico Westlye et al, 2011) y una función concreta (Callejas et al, 2005;De Souza Almeida et al, 2021;Luna, Roca et al, 2021); sin embargo, también pueden estar interconectadas neuronalmente (Markett et al, 2022;Spagna et al, 2016), a través de varias vías de proyección -como sucede entre la red atencional de orientación y la de alerta- (Xuan et al, 2016), y a nivel conductual cuando el funcionamiento de una red incide sobre el rendimiento de la otra (Fan et al, 2009;Funes & Lupiáñez, 2003).…”

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Funcionamiento de las redes atencionales en la adultez joven y el nivel de educación

Balseca-Bolaños

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Gamboa-Proaño

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Acta. Colomb. Psicol.

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El objetivo del presente estudio fue observar el efecto de las variables nivel de estudios y adultez joven en la tarea de redes atencionales. Para ello, participaron 58 personas de población general separados en grupos de estudiantes y no estudiantes, y en adultez emergente y temprana, con los cuales se llevó a cabo un diseño experimental, utilizando como paradigma principal la tarea de redes atencionales. Los resultados mostraron que los grupos de estudiantes y no estudiantes no difirieron en rendimiento en ninguna de las condiciones de las redes, pero que, en cuanto a la variable adultez joven, hubo un efecto de interacción entre el tipo de adultez y la red de orientación, siendo el grupo adulto emergente más rápido que el grupo adulto temprano. Además, un análisis correlacional demostró que la edad correlacionó moderada y positivamente con el tiempo de reacción de todas las condiciones de la tarea atencional. Al final se discute la importancia del nivel de educación superior y la adultez joven sobre el funcionamiento de las redes atencionales en el campo de la psicología diferencial, y se mencionan las implicaciones de estos resultados en el ámbito clínico.

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“…Although the measure exclusively considering the no-cue conditions is a purer measure of alertness, the measure considering all conditions is more powerful and reliable(de Souza et al, 2021).…”

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Attentional networks, vigilance, and distraction as a function of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in an adult community sample

Coll-Martín

Carretero‐Dios

Lupiáñez

2021

British J of Psychology

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Attentional difficulties are a core axis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, establishing a consistent and detailed pattern of these neurocognitive alterations has not been an easy endeavour. Based on a dimensional approach to ADHD, the present study aims at comprehensively characterizing three key attentional domains: the three attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive attention), two components of vigilance (executive and arousal vigilance), and distraction. To do so, we modified a single, fine-grained task (the ANTI-Vea) by adding irrelevant distractors. One hundred and twenty undergraduates completed three self-reports of ADHD symptoms in childhood and adulthood and performed the ANTI-Vea. Despite the low reliability of some ANTI-Vea indexes, the task worked successfully. While ADHD symptoms in childhood were related to alerting network and arousal vigilance, symptoms in adulthood were linked to executive vigilance. No association between ADHD symptom severity and executive attention and distraction was found. In general, our hypotheses about the relationships between ADHD symptoms and attentional processes were partially supported. We discuss our findings according to ADHD theories and attention measurement.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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On the origins and evolution of the Attention Network Tests

Cited by 49 publications

References 66 publications

Lifestyle factors and their impact on the networks of attention

Lifestyle factors and their impact on the networks of attention

Funcionamiento de las redes atencionales en la adultez joven y el nivel de educación

Attentional networks, vigilance, and distraction as a function of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in an adult community sample

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