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Presentation modality influences behavioral measures of alerting, orienting, and executive control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2006

KATHERINE L. ROBERTS ,
A. QUENTIN SUMMERFIELD  and
DEBORAH A. HALL
KATHERINE L. ROBERTS
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom
A. QUENTIN SUMMERFIELD
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
DEBORAH A. HALL
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Abstract

The Attention Network Test (ANT) uses visual stimuli to separately assess the attentional skills of alerting (improved performance following a warning cue), spatial orienting (an additional benefit when the warning cue also cues target location), and executive control (impaired performance when a target stimulus contains conflicting information). This study contrasted performance on auditory and visual versions of the ANT to determine whether the measures it obtains are influenced by presentation modality. Forty healthy volunteers completed both auditory and visual tests. Reaction-time measures of executive control were of a similar magnitude and significantly correlated, suggesting that executive control might be a supramodal resource. Measures of alerting were also comparable across tasks. In contrast, spatial-orienting benefits were obtained only in the visual task. Auditory spatial cues did not improve response times to auditory targets presented at the cued location. The different spatial-orienting measures could reflect either separate orienting resources for each perceptual modality, or an interaction between a supramodal orienting resource and modality-specific perceptual processing (JINS, 2006, 12, 485–492.)

Keywords

Auditory perceptionVisual perceptionAttentionCuesAttention Network TestANT
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Research Article
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , July 2006 , pp. 485 - 492
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© 2006 The International Neuropsychological Society

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