Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The attention network test (ANT) assesses efficiency across alerting, orienting, and executive components of visual attention. This study examined approaches to assessing auditory attention networks, and performance was compared to the visual ANT. Re...
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| author | Johnston, S. Hennessey, N. Leitao, Suze |
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| description | © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The attention network test (ANT) assesses efficiency across alerting, orienting, and executive components of visual attention. This study examined approaches to assessing auditory attention networks, and performance was compared to the visual ANT. Results showed (1) alerting was sufficiently elicited in a pitch discrimination and sound localization task, although these effects were unrelated, (2) weak orienting of attention was elicited through pitch discrimination, which varied based on ISI and conflict level, but robust orienting of attention was found through sound localization, and (3) executive control was sufficiently assessed in both pitch discrimination and sound localization tasks, but these effects were unrelated. Correlation analysis suggested that, unlike alerting and orienting, sound localization auditory executive control functions tap a shared attention network system. Overall, the results suggest that auditory ANT measures are largely task and modality specific, with sound localization offering potential to assess all three attention networks in a single task. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-741792019-02-19T04:27:18Z Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks Johnston, S. Hennessey, N. Leitao, Suze © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The attention network test (ANT) assesses efficiency across alerting, orienting, and executive components of visual attention. This study examined approaches to assessing auditory attention networks, and performance was compared to the visual ANT. Results showed (1) alerting was sufficiently elicited in a pitch discrimination and sound localization task, although these effects were unrelated, (2) weak orienting of attention was elicited through pitch discrimination, which varied based on ISI and conflict level, but robust orienting of attention was found through sound localization, and (3) executive control was sufficiently assessed in both pitch discrimination and sound localization tasks, but these effects were unrelated. Correlation analysis suggested that, unlike alerting and orienting, sound localization auditory executive control functions tap a shared attention network system. Overall, the results suggest that auditory ANT measures are largely task and modality specific, with sound localization offering potential to assess all three attention networks in a single task. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74179 10.1080/00221309.2018.1541861 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Johnston, S. Hennessey, N. Leitao, Suze Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| title | Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| title_full | Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| title_short | Determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| title_sort | determinants of assessing efficiency within auditory attention networks |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74179 |