how to cite this article: pishyareh e, tehrani-doost m, mahmoodi-gharaie j, khorrami a, rahmdar sr. a comparative study of sustained attentional bias on emotional processing in adhd children to pictures with eye-tracking. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):64-70. abstract objective adhd children have anomalous and negative behavior especially in emotionally related fields when compared to ot...

UNLABELLED The Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) test assesses central auditory pathways by measuring auditory and visual sensitivity and testing selective attention. Cerebellum activation in auditory attention and sensorial activity modulation have already been described. Assessing patients with cerebellar lesions alone using the SSI test can confirm the role of the cerebellum in auditor...

Caffeine induces positive effects on sustained attention, although studies assessing the acute effects of low caffeine dose (<75 mg) on sustained attention are limited and use short-term tests. Therefore, we investigated the acute effects of a 60 mg dose of caffeine on sustained attention in tests lasting up to 45 minutes using 82 low or non-caffeine-consuming healthy male ( n=41) and female ( ...

The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) is a cognitive task purported to measure working memory, speed of information processing, and sustained and divided attention (Spreen, O. & Strauss, E. (1998). A compendium of neuropsychological tests: administration, norms, and commentary (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.) The current study examined whether treating late responses...

Pain affects the lives of many individuals by creating physical, psychological, and economic burdens. A critical psychological factor negatively affected pain is one's ability to sustain attention. In order better understand effect on sustained attention we conducted three experiments utilizing psychomotor vigilance task, thought probes, pupillometry. Experiment 1, participants in acute exhibit...

Complex span tasks are predictive of many aspects of behavior, in both experimental and applied areas of cognitive psychology. Our view is that these tasks measure primarily working memory capacity (WMC), which we argue is the ability to control attention. The development of the Attention Network Test (ANT) provided the opportunity to study the relationship between WMC and specific types of att...

Competing theories of short-term memory function make specific predictions about the functional anatomy of auditory short-term memory and its role in language comprehension. We analysed high-resolution structural magnetic resonance images from 210 stroke patients and employed a novel voxel based analysis to test the relationship between auditory short-term memory and speech comprehension. Using...