Initial Evaluation of a New Auditory Attention Task for Assessing Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Control Attention.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Attention is a key cognitive function crucial for selecting and processing information. It is often divided into three components: alerting, orienting, and executive control. While there are tasks designed to simultaneously assess the attentional subsystems in the visual modality, creating an effective auditory task has been challenging, especially for clinical populations. This study aimed to explore whether a new Auditory Attention Task (AAT) measures all three attentional subsystems in neurotypical controls.

Method

Forty-eight young adults completed the AAT, where they judged the duration of the first of two tones while ignoring the second tone's duration. Executive control was assessed by comparing performance on trials with conflict (incongruent) and without con

SUBMITTER: LaCroix AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12384943 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature