| Literature DB >> 18269768 |
Steinunn Adólfsdóttir1, Lin Sørensen, Astri J Lundervold.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Attention Network test (ANT) gives measures of different aspects of the complex process of attention. We ask if children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will show a characteristic pattern of deficits on this test.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID: 18269768 PMCID: PMC2265730 DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-4-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Behav Brain Funct ISSN: 1744-9081 Impact factor: 3.759
Definition of variables
| Reaction time | Mean reaction time (RT) for each cue and flanker condition |
| Hits | Number of correct responses |
| Overall errors | Number of overall errors |
| Wrong responses | All other error responses than omissions, perservations and outliers |
| Omissions | RT = 0 ms. |
| Perservations | RT > 0 ms. < 100 ms. |
| Outliers | Flanker × Cue RT - Stdev < 3*Stdev. RT = 0 can not be both omission and outlier and priority was given to omissions |
| Hits RT | Median RT for correct responses |
| Hits RT SE | Standard error of RT for correct responses. Measure of consistency of responses |
| Variability of SE | Standard deviation of the 3 standard error values calculated for each block. Measures within respondent variability |
| Hits RT block change | The slope of change in RT between blocks. Measure of vigilance |
| Hits SE block change | The slope of change in standard error of RT between blocks. Measure of consistency and vigilance |
| Attention Networks | |
| Alerting = RT/error for no cue - RT/error for double cue | |
| Orienting = RT/error for central cue - RT/error for orienting cue | |
| Conflict: = RT/error for incongruent flanker - RT/error for congruent flanker |
Figure 1Flow chart visualizing the selection procedure.
Means and SDs of the ADHD and non-ADHD groups on demographic variables and selected ANT variables.
| ADHD definite diagnosis N = 45 | Other definite Diagnoses N = 55 | Without diagnosis N = 57 | Overall N = 157 | |
| RT/Error M (SD) | RT/Error M (SD) | RT/Error M (SD) | RT/Error M (SD) | |
| FSIQ | 78,7 (17,6) | 93,6 (15,2) | 97,8 (11,5) | 90,9 (16,7) |
| Age | 10,3 (0,8) | 9,9 (1,0) | 9,9 (0,9) | 10,0 (0,9) |
| Hits | 125,1 (16,7) | 132,4 (8,6) | 133,1 (9,7) | 130,6 (12,2) |
| Overall errors | 18,9 (16,7) | 11,6 (8,6) | 10,9 (9,7) | 13,4 (12,2) |
| | 5,4 (4,5) | 3,3 (3,3) | 3,2 (3,3) | 3,9 (3,8) |
| | 12,9 (14,6) | 7,9 (7,1) | 7,3 (7,9) | 9,1 (10,3) |
| | 0,2 (0,5) | 0,1 (0,3) | 0,1 (0,2) | 0,1 (0,4) |
| | 0,3 (0,6) | 0,3 (0,5) | 0,3 (0,8) | 0,3 (0,7) |
| Hits RT | 828,3 (148,4) | 791,9 (123,7) | 791,8 (124,7) | 802,3 (131,8) |
| Hit RT SE | 22,5 (5,6) | 20,2 (4,1) | 19,7 (5,0) | 20,7 (5,0) |
| Variability of SE | 5,2 (2,9) | 5,4 (2,4) | 5,3 (3,8) | 5,3 (3,1) |
| Hit RT Block Change | -3,1 (48,9) | -27,8 (52,7) | -13,9 (66,7) | -15,7 (57,7) |
| Hit SE Block Change | 0,3 (4,9) | -0,1 (4,9) | 0,5 (5,4) | 0,2 (5,1) |
| Alerting | 109,2 (81,6) | 101,0 (63,6) | 80,8 (74,4) | 96,0 (73,5) |
| Orienting | 27,7 (60,6) | 37,5 (59,3) | 32,0 (58,7) | 32,7 (59,2) |
| Conflict | 92,2 (85,6) | 81,0 (60,2) | 87,3 (56,1) | 86,5 (66,9) |
| Alerting | 2,6 (9,9) | 2,4 (5,1) | 3,3 (6,6) | 2,8 (7,3) |
| Orienting | 0,3 (7,0) | 0,3 (5,9) | 0,2 (5,7) | 0,3 (6,1) |
| Conflict | 4,6 (11,2) | 4,4 (7,4) | 3,4 (6,1) | 4,1 (8,2) |
A one-way ANOVA showing the difference between the groups on selected ANT variables.
| Main effect of between groups ANOVA | |||
| FSIQ | 2, 154 | 22.66*** | 1 < 2,3 |
| Overall errors | 2, 154 | 6.77** | 1 > 2,3 |
| | 2, 154 | 5.58** | 1 > 2,3 |
| | 2, 154 | 4.54* | |
| Hits RT | 2, 154 | 1.23 | |
| Hit RT SE | 2, 154 | 4.41** | 1 > 3 |
| Variability of SE | 2, 154 | .05 | |
| Hit RT Block Change | 2, 154 | 2.34 | |
| Hit SE Block Change | 2, 154 | .22 | |
| Alerting – RT | 2, 154 | 2.09 | |
| Orienting – RT | 2, 154 | .34 | |
| Conflict – RT | 2, 154 | .35 | |
| Alerting – Error | 2, 154 | .21 | |
| Orienting – Error | 2, 154 | .01 | |
| Conflict – Error | 2, 154 | .34 | |
* = p < .05 ** = p < .01 *** = p < .001
Group: 1 = ADHD; 2 = Other diagnoses; 3 = No diagnosis
Correlations between selected ANT variables within the three groups and for all participants.
| ADHD definite diagnosis N = 45 | Other definite Diagnoses N = 55 | Without diagnosis N = 57 | Overall N = 157 | |||||
| Age | FSIQ score | Age | FSIQ score | Age | FSIQ score | Age | FSIQ score | |
| Overall errors | -.167 | -.509** | -.298 | -.255 | -.314 | -.294 | -.164 | -.455** |
| | -.031 | -.497** | -.111 | -.149 | -.264 | -.152 | -.073 | -.373** |
| | -.191 | -.408* | -.315 | -.236 | -.274 | -.277 | -.174 | -.388** |
| Hits RT | -.164 | -.309 | -.469** | -.101 | -.411** | -.183 | -.320** | -.235* |
| Hit RT SE | -.094 | -.472** | -.321 | -.239 | -.235 | -.207 | -.159 | -.381** |
| Variability of SE | .051 | -.084 | .181 | -.054 | .066 | -.036 | .089 | -.041 |
| Hit RT Block Change | .083 | .069 | .287 | -.176 | .415** | .098 | .312** | -.058 |
| Hit SE Block Change | .034 | -.108 | .119 | -.240 | .299 | .009 | .164 | -.100 |
* = Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level 2 tailed
** = Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level 2 tailed