The AttentionTrip: A game-like tool for measuring the networks of attention

Klein, Raymond M.; Hassan, Tariq A.; Wilson, Graham; Ishigami, Yoko; Mulle, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2017.07.008

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“…In 2013, Liu et al [ 102 ] studied the effects of passive heat exposure on the neural mechanisms of the human attention network. The human attention network is thought to be composed of three separate yet intimately interacting networks that control the alerting, orienting, and executive functions [ 103 ]. The alerting network maintains a state of high sensitivity during task performance over a short period of time.…”

Section: Heat and Brainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Possible Biological Mechanisms Linking Mental Health and Heat—A Contemplative Review

Lõhmus

2018

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This review provides examples of possible biological mechanisms that could, at least partly, explain the existing epidemiological evidence of heatwave-related exacerbation of mental disease morbidity. The author reviews the complicated central processes involved in the challenge of maintaining a stable body temperature in hot environments, and the maladaptive effects of certain psychiatric medicines on thermoregulation. In addition, the author discusses some alternative mechanisms, such as interrupted functional brain connectivity and the effect of disrupted sleep, which may further increase the vulnerability of mental health patients during heatwaves.

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Section: Heat and Brainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Possible Biological Mechanisms Linking Mental Health and Heat—A Contemplative Review

Lõhmus

2018

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“…Another increasingly common use of serious games is within various academic disciplines, most notably within psychology (16)(17)(18). Here, games --particularly when used in tandem with mobile devices (19) --are thought to have great potential as research tools (20)(21)(22).…”

Section: Serious Gamesmentioning

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A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

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Traditional search tasks have taught us much about vision and attention. Recently, several groups have begun to use multiple-target search to explore more complex and temporally extended “foraging” behaviour. Many of these new foraging tasks, however, maintain the simplified 2D displays and response demands associated with traditional, single-target visual search. In this respect, they may fail to capture important aspects of real-world search or foraging behaviour. In the current paper, we present a serious game for mobile platforms in which human participants play the role of an animal foraging for food in a simulated 3D environment. Game settings can be adjusted, so that, for example, custom target and distractor items can be uploaded, and task parameters, such as the number of target categories or target/distractor ratio are all easy to modify. We demonstrate how the app can be used to address specific research questions by conducting two human foraging experiments. Our results indicate that in this 3D environment, a standard feature/conjunction manipulation does not lead to a reduction in foraging runs, as it is known to do in simple, 2D foraging tasks. Differences in foraging behaviour are discussed in terms of environment structure, task demands and attentional constraints.

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“…Another increasingly common use of serious games is within various academic disciplines, most notably within psychology [16][17][18]. Here, games-particularly when used in tandem App settings menu.…”

Section: Serious Gamesmentioning

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“…However, this does not appear to be the case. For example, Ray Klein and colleagues [18] have recently developed a serious game called the "AttentionTrip" which implements and extends the well-known Attention Network Test [57], as an active, first-person driving scenario. In this dynamic, simulated-3D context they were still able to reliably measure the spatial-compatibility Simon effect [58] as well as measures of attentional orienting, alerting and executive control from the ANT.…”

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A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

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Traditional search tasks have taught us much about vision and attention. Recently, several groups have begun to use multiple-target search to explore more complex and temporally extended "foraging" behaviour. Many of these new foraging tasks, however, maintain the simplified 2D displays and response demands associated with traditional, single-target visual search. In this respect, they may fail to capture important aspects of real-world search or foraging behaviour. In the current paper, we present a serious game for mobile platforms, developed in Unity3D, in which human participants play the role of an animal foraging for food in a simulated 3D environment. Game settings can be adjusted, so that, for example, custom target and distractor items can be uploaded, and task parameters, such as the number of target categories or target/distractor ratio are all easy to modify. We are also making the Unity3D project available, so that further modifications can also be made. We demonstrate how the app can be used to address specific research questions by conducting two human foraging experiments. Our results indicate that in this 3D environment, a standard feature/conjunction manipulation does not lead to a reduction in foraging runs, as it is known to do in simple, 2D foraging tasks.

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The AttentionTrip: A game-like tool for measuring the networks of attention

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

Possible Biological Mechanisms Linking Mental Health and Heat—A Contemplative Review

Possible Biological Mechanisms Linking Mental Health and Heat—A Contemplative Review

A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

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