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Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults
We examined performance in the antisaccade task for younger and older adults by comparing latencies and errors in what we defined as high attentional focus (mixed antisaccades and prosaccades in the same block) and low attentional focus (antisaccades and prosaccades in separate blocks) conditions. S...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3631188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23620767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061566 |
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author | Wang, Jingxin Tian, Jing Wang, Rong Benson, Valerie |
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description | We examined performance in the antisaccade task for younger and older adults by comparing latencies and errors in what we defined as high attentional focus (mixed antisaccades and prosaccades in the same block) and low attentional focus (antisaccades and prosaccades in separate blocks) conditions. Shorter saccade latencies for correctly executed eye movements were observed for both groups in mixed, compared to blocked, antisaccade tasks, but antisaccade error rates were higher for older participants across both conditions. The results are discussed in relation to the inhibitory hypothesis, the goal neglect theory and attentional control theory. |
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spelling | pubmed-36311882013-04-25 Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults Wang, Jingxin Tian, Jing Wang, Rong Benson, Valerie PLoS One Research Article We examined performance in the antisaccade task for younger and older adults by comparing latencies and errors in what we defined as high attentional focus (mixed antisaccades and prosaccades in the same block) and low attentional focus (antisaccades and prosaccades in separate blocks) conditions. Shorter saccade latencies for correctly executed eye movements were observed for both groups in mixed, compared to blocked, antisaccade tasks, but antisaccade error rates were higher for older participants across both conditions. The results are discussed in relation to the inhibitory hypothesis, the goal neglect theory and attentional control theory. Public Library of Science 2013-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3631188/ /pubmed/23620767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061566 Text en © 2013 Wang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Jingxin Tian, Jing Wang, Rong Benson, Valerie Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults |
title | Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults |
title_full | Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults |
title_short | Increased Attentional Focus Modulates Eye Movements in a Mixed Antisaccade Task for Younger and Older Adults |
title_sort | increased attentional focus modulates eye movements in a mixed antisaccade task for younger and older adults |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3631188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23620767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061566 |
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