Lundwall Rebecca A, Sgro Jordan F, Fanger Julia
Psychology Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America.
Sociology Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2018 Jan 12;13(1):e0190724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190724. eCollection 2018.
Compared to sustained attention, only a small proportion of studies examine reflexive attention as a component of everyday attention. Understanding the significance of reflexive attention to everyday attention may inform better treatments for attentional disorders. Children from a general population (recruited when they were from 9-16 years old) completed an exogenously-cued task measuring the extent to which attention is captured by peripheral cue-target conditions. Parents completed a questionnaire reporting their child's day-to-day attention. A general linear model indicated that parent-rated inattention predicted the increase in response time over baseline when a bright cue preceded the target (whether it was valid or invalid) but not when a dim cue preceded the target. More attentive children had more pronounced response time increases from baseline. Our findings suggest a link between a basic measure of cognition (response time difference scores) and parent observations. The findings have implications for increased understanding of the role of reflexive attention in the everyday attention of children.
与持续性注意力相比，仅有一小部分研究将反射性注意力作为日常注意力的一个组成部分进行考察。了解反射性注意力对日常注意力的重要性可能有助于为注意力障碍制定更好的治疗方法。来自普通人群的儿童（9至16岁时招募）完成了一项外部提示任务，该任务测量了注意力被外周提示-目标条件捕获的程度。家长完成了一份问卷，报告他们孩子的日常注意力情况。一个一般线性模型表明，当明亮提示先于目标出现时（无论提示是否有效），家长评定的注意力不集中可预测反应时间相对于基线的增加，但当暗淡提示先于目标出现时则不然。注意力更集中的儿童从基线开始的反应时间增加更为明显。我们的研究结果表明，一种基本的认知测量指标（反应时间差异分数）与家长的观察之间存在联系。这些发现对于增进对反射性注意力在儿童日常注意力中所起作用的理解具有重要意义。
