TY - JOUR
T1 - A behavioral and electrophysiological study of children's selective attention under neutral and affective conditions
AU - Pérez-Edgar, Koraly
AU - Fox, Nathan A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Stacey Barton, Dalit H. Marshall, Kirsten VanMeenen, and Peter Marshall for their assistance in data collection and analysis. We would especially like to thank the parents of the children who participated and continue to participate in our studies. Portions of these data were presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in April 2001. This research was partially supported by Grants from the National Institute of Health (HD 32666 and HD 17899) to Nathan A. Fox.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Seven-year-olds completed a Posner cued attention task, under both neutral and affectively charged conditions. Compared to the traditional (affect-neutral) Posner task, performance in the affective Posner task was marked by dramatic decreases in reaction times (RTs), an increase in errors, an increased validity effect (difference in RTs to the cued vs. uncued trials), and increased electrocortical activity. Temperamentally shy children in the study differed from their non-shy peers within the affective Posner task only, exhibiting larger event-related potentials amplitudes and right electroencephalogram asymmetry. In addition, shy children preferentially attended to the negative cues presented during the task. These data reinforce the notion that the functional balance between cognition and affect is sensitive to both contextual and individual characteristics.
AB - Seven-year-olds completed a Posner cued attention task, under both neutral and affectively charged conditions. Compared to the traditional (affect-neutral) Posner task, performance in the affective Posner task was marked by dramatic decreases in reaction times (RTs), an increase in errors, an increased validity effect (difference in RTs to the cued vs. uncued trials), and increased electrocortical activity. Temperamentally shy children in the study differed from their non-shy peers within the affective Posner task only, exhibiting larger event-related potentials amplitudes and right electroencephalogram asymmetry. In addition, shy children preferentially attended to the negative cues presented during the task. These data reinforce the notion that the functional balance between cognition and affect is sensitive to both contextual and individual characteristics.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15327647jcd0601_6
DO - 10.1207/s15327647jcd0601_6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:24944478946
SN - 1524-8372
VL - 6
SP - 89
EP - 118
JO - Journal of Cognition and Development
JF - Journal of Cognition and Development
IS - 1
ER -