A functional connectivity-based neuromarker of sustained attention generalizes to predict recall in a reading task.

ABSTRACT: Sustaining attention to the task at hand is a crucial part of everyday life, from following a lecture at school to maintaining focus while driving. Lapses in sustained attention are frequent and often problematic, with conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affecting millions of people worldwide. Recent work has had some success in finding signatures of sustained attention in whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) measures during basic tasks, but since FC can be dynamic and task-dependent, it remains unclear how fully these signatures would generalize to a more complex and naturalistic scenario. To this end, we used a previously defined whole-brain FC network - a marker of attention that was derived from a sustained attention task - to predict the ability of particip

SUBMITTER: Jangraw DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5748005 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature