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CNTRICS final task selection: control of attention.
Full Abstract
The construct of attention has many facets that have been examined in human and animal research and in healthy and psychiatrically disordered conditions. The Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (CNTRICS) group concluded that control of attention-the processes that guide selection of task-relevant inputs-is particularly impaired in schizophrenia and could profit from further work with refined measurement tools. Thus, nominations for cognitive tasks that provide discrete measures of control of attention were sought and were then evaluated at the third CNTRICS meeting for their promise for future use in treatment development. This article describes the 5 nominated measures and their strengths and weaknesses for cognitive neuroscience work relevant to treatment development. Two paradigms, Guided Search and the Distractor Condition Sustained Attention Task, were viewed as having the greatest immediate promise for development into tools for treatment research in schizophrenia and are described in more detail by their nominators.
Author information
Author/s: Nuechterlein, Keith H (KH); Luck, Steven J (SJ); Lustig, Cindy (C); Sarter, Martin (M);
Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour, University of California, LA, CA, USA. keithn(-atsign-)ucla.edu
Grants: K02 MH01072 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH037705 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH065034 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH066286 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH068580 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH080332 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH080426 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Review
Journal: Schizophrenia bulletin (Schizophr Bull), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-Jan; vol 35 (issue 1) : pp 182-96
Dates: Created 2008/12/16; Completed 2009/03/30;
PMID: 19074499, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 3/30/2009, IMS Date: 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00)
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