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Rueda, M. Rosario; Posner, Michael I.; Rothbart, Mary K.; Davis‐Stober, Clintin P.

doi:10.1186/1471-2202-5-39

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“…However, the averaged conflict scores at posttest were smaller and more adult-like for the trained group at both ages than for their controls. The posttraining score for 6-year-olds (39 ms) is rather similar to adult scores (30 ms) for this task (21). The training effect overall was about half as large as the one due to the 2 years of development from 4 to 6 years of age (see Table 4).…”

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“…Electrophysiological data served to investigate changes in the pattern of brain activations due to training. According to previous studies with the same and similar flanker tasks, conflict-related effects were most expected around the N2 component for channels located at frontoparietal and prefrontal areas (21,22). In addition, results from adult studies have shown that the fronto-parietal N2 reflects conflict-related activity in the anterior cingulate (22).…”

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Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention

Rueda

Rothbart

McCandliss

et al. 2005

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A neural network underlying attentional control involves the anterior cingulate in addition to lateral prefrontal areas. An important development of this network occurs between 3 and 7 years of age. We have examined the efficiency of attentional networks across age and after 5 days of attention training (experimental group) compared with different types of no training (control groups) in 4-year-old and 6-year-old children. Strong improvement in executive attention and intelligence was found from ages 4 to 6 years. Both 4-and 6-year-olds showed more mature performance after the training than did the control groups. This finding applies to behavioral scores of the executive attention network as measured by the attention network test, event-related potentials recorded from the scalp during attention network test performance, and intelligence test scores. We also documented the role of the temperamental factor of effortful control and the DAT1 gene in individual differences in attention. Overall, our data suggest that the executive attention network appears to develop under strong genetic control, but that it is subject to educational interventions during development.attentional intervention ͉ child development ͉ dopamine genes ͉ effortful control ͉ network efficiency A ttention involves separable networks that compute different functions. One of these, the executive attention network, involves the anterior cingulate and lateral prefrontal areas and is activated strongly in situations that entail attentional control, such as when there is conflict between responses suggested by stimulus dimensions (1-3). An imaging study showed that three different tasks involving conflict activated a common network that included the anterior cingulate and lateral prefrontal brain areas (3). Although conflict is a good way to activate this network, it has been shown to be active in a wide variety of tasks that involve thinking about the required response. In previous work we have related executive attention to the mechanisms for self-regulation of cognition and emotion (4).All human beings have an executive attention network with a similar enough anatomy to average over subjects in imaging studies (2, 3). However, there are also clear individual differences in the efficiency of network performance. A twin study showed that the efficiency of the executive network was highly heritable (5). To date, alleles of four dopamine-related genes have been found to relate to the efficiency of performance in this network (6-9).Our studies of the executive network in children have adopted a child version of the Attention Network Test (Child ANT) (10). This test uses a version of the flanker task (11) to assess the ability to resolve conflict and uses different cue conditions to examine alerting and orienting (10). We have found a substantial development of executive attention between 3 and 7 years of age (4, 10). Although much of this development is under genetic control, it is also likely that the home and school environment can exert an influen...

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Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention

Rueda

Rothbart

McCandliss

et al. 2005

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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702

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“…In these studies it is usually shown that adolescents typically exhibit increased error rates, RTs and N2 amplitudes (Ladouceur et al, 2007;Ridderinkhof et al, 1997;Ridderinkhof and van der Molen, 1995;Rueda et al, 2004). Similar results were obtained in this study, even though superimposed by higher order interactions of "transition" and "predictability", which are broadening the perspective of conflict monitoring.…”

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Predictability and context determine differences in conflict monitoring between adolescence and adulthood

Chmielewski

Roessner

Beste

2015

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…As recently suggested, the successful performance of this selective attention task depends not only on the alerting and orienting networks but also on the facilitating effect of the orienting cues when conflict resolution is required [53,54]. In this perspective, one could postulate that MCI participants with single dysexecutive deficits need more time for the activation of cortical circuits that subserve conflict resolution compared to other MCI subgroups [26,55]. Alternatively, the increased P300 latency could be attributed to the allocation of additional neural resources necessary for the successful performance of the cognitive task in this diagnostic group.…”

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Attention-Related Potentials Allow for a Highly Accurate Discrimination of Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtypes

Missonnier

Herrmann²,

Richiardi³

et al. 2012

Neurodegener Dis

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The three most frequent forms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are single-domain amnestic MCI (sd-aMCI), single-domain dysexecutive MCI (sd-dMCI) and multiple-domain amnestic MCI (md-aMCI). Brain imaging differences among single domain subgroups of MCI were recently reported supporting the idea that electroencephalography (EEG) functional hallmarks can be used to differentiate these subgroups. We performed event-related potential (ERP) measures and independent component analysis in 18 sd-aMCI, 13 sd-dMCI and 35 md-aMCI cases during the successful performance of the Attentional Network Test. Sensitivity and specificity analyses of ERP for the discrimination of MCI subgroups were also made. In center-cue and spatial-cue warning stimuli, contingent negative variation (CNV) was elicited in all MCI subgroups. Two independent components (ICA1 and 2) were superimposed in the time range on the CNV. The ICA2 was strongly reduced in sd-dMCI compared to sd-aMCI and md-aMCI (4.3 vs. 7.5% and 10.9% of the CNV component). The parietal P300 ERP latency increased significantly in sd-dMCI compared to md-aMCI and sd-aMCI for both congruent and incongruent conditions. This latency for incongruent targets allowed for a highly accurate separation of sd-dMCI from both sd-aMCI and md-aMCI with correct classification rates of 90 and 81%, respectively. This EEG parameter alone performed much better than neuropsychological testing in distinguishing sd-dMCI from md-aMCI. Our data reveal qualitative changes in the composition of the neural generators of CNV in sd-dMCI. In addition, they document an increased latency of the executive P300 component that may represent a highly accurate hallmark for the discrimination of this MCI subgroup in routine clinical settings.

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Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention

Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention

Predictability and context determine differences in conflict monitoring between adolescence and adulthood

Attention-Related Potentials Allow for a Highly Accurate Discrimination of Mild Cognitive Impairment Subtypes

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