Genetic contributions to attentional response time slopes across repeated trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attention provides vital contribution to everyday functioning, and deficits in attention feature in many psychological disorders. Improved understanding of attention may eventually be critical to early identification and treatment of attentional deficits. One step in that direction is to acquire a better understanding of genetic associations with performance on a task measuring reflexive (exogenous) visual attention. Reflexive attention is an important component of overall attention because (along with voluntary selective attention) it participates in determining where attention is allocated and how susceptible to distractors the subject might be. The task that we used involves the presentation of a target that is preceded by one of several different types of cues (none,

SUBMITTER: Lundwall RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4608133 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature