Later on, by the end of the first year, a second attentional system, the executive attention system, emerges.
The Attention Network Test (ANT) will be used to quantify the processing efficiency within three attentional networks: alerting, orienting, and executive attention [ 44].
The IBQ-R orienting score measures an orienting attentional network, and the ECBQ effortful score assesses an executive attention network.
Conflict tasks have been shown in neuroimaging studies to activate specific brain networks of executive attention.
We discuss briefly the question of how executive attention may have arisen due to selective pressure.
We evaluated executive attention in 60 medicated schizophrenia patients and 60 matched healthy individuals.
Executive attention (EA) is a core-construct of working memory (WM) capacity.
Results revealed, as expected, a specific core deficit in executive attention for the ADHD factor.
The "executive attention" network of the brain is also crucial to creativity, however.
Results revealed main effects for the executive attention and orienting networks, but not for the alerting network.
Baseline executive attention performance was significantly related to psychosis severity and functional capacity in the psychiatric group.
