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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Arianna N. LaCroix, Sara Perreira, Ashley McMillon
Summary: This study aims to compare the ability of three auditory Attention Network Tests (ANTs) to measure alerting, orienting, and executive control attention in people with aphasia (PWA) and matched controls. The results suggest that the Auditory Duration ANT may have the greatest clinical utility, but further optimization is needed for its clinical use.
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Clinical Neurology
Maria Varkanitsa, Erin Godecke, Swathi Kiran
Summary: People with poststroke aphasia not only have language deficits but also face challenges with nonlinguistic cognitive skills such as attention processing. This review aims to synthesize evidence on the relationship between attention deficits and language deficits in individuals with poststroke aphasia. Three types of studies are reviewed: (1) studies investigating whether people with poststroke aphasia have concomitant attention and language deficits, (2) studies explicitly exploring the relationship between attention and language deficits in individuals with poststroke aphasia, and (3) treatment studies examining whether gains in one domain generalize to the other in language or attention (or both). The last section briefly reviews research evidence on the neural basis of the attention-language relationship in aphasia.
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Clinical Neurology
Cheng Chen, Xin Dong, Ping Gu, Keyan Chen, Qi Wan, Haiyue Xie, Zhaochun Shi, Teng Wang
Summary: Patients with migraine without aura (MwoA) exhibit attention deficits during the headache-free period, with more anxiety and depression compared to healthy controls. Significant differences in the executive network were found, but were unrelated to gender, age, literacy, anxiety, and depression.
JOURNAL OF PAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
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Rehabilitation
Camilla Olsson, Patrik Arvidsson, Monica Blom Johansson
Summary: Assessing executive function in persons with severe aphasia is challenging, and informant ratings may not accurately represent the function due to interpretation issues and the language problems caused by aphasia.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Irene Aprile, Giulia Guardati, Valeria Cipollini, Dionysia Papadopoulou, Serena Monteleone, Alessandra Redolfi, Romina Garattini, Gianluigi Sacella, Fulvia Noro, Silvia Galeri, Maria Chiara Carrozza, Marco Germanotta
Summary: This study found that cognitive functions have an impact on the rehabilitation outcomes of stroke patients undergoing robotic upper limb rehabilitation. Deficits in spatial attention and executive functions affected improvement in daily living and mobility, while deficits in language, number processing, and spatial attention reduced gains in motor function.
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Behavioral Sciences
Martin Jensen, Eva Huettenrauch, Jochen Mueller-Mazzotta, Boris A. Stuck, Cornelia Weise
Summary: This study found that individuals with chronic tinnitus did not show specific impairment in executive control of attention, nor in other attention domains, suggesting that tinnitus and executive attention impairment may not be directly related.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Elena Gorina, Alena A. Kulikova, W. Joseph MacInnes
Summary: Attention is proposed to be a system of multiple functional networks, and the Attentional Networks Test (ANT) is a popular experimental paradigm for testing these networks and their interactions. By modifying the executive control component of the manual response version of ANT, the study explored the involvement of oculomotor responses in attention networks and compared interactions among traditional ANT, new ANTs with saccadic responses, and a manual response version. The results show typical main effects of all three attention networks, but differences in their interactions, highlighting the need for further investigation of differences between manual and oculomotor systems.
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Behavioral Sciences
Rahel Schumacher, Ajay D. Halai, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Summary: It is increasingly recognized that patients with aphasia after a left-hemisphere stroke often experience difficulties in attention. This study analyzes patients' performances on different attention tasks and measures, revealing variations and a weak association with language abilities. This research highlights the importance of assessing attention in aphasic patients.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Rafael de Souza Almeida, Aydamari Faria-Jr, Raymond M. Klein
Summary: This review discusses the origin and evolution of the Attention Network Test (ANT), as well as the nature and purposes of its various variants. The author briefly mentions some minor modifications to the ANT and offers suggestions related to data reporting and analysis.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2021)
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Rehabilitation
Wei Wei, Xingyang Yi, Zexiu Wu, Jianghai Ruan, Hua Luo, Xiaodong Duan
Summary: The study found that two weeks of rTMS treatment led to significant improvements in executive function tests and reduced reaction times in the executive control network in Parkinson's disease patients. However, the sham rTMS group did not show any significant changes.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Alexandre Aubry, Beatrice Bourdin
Summary: Intellectually gifted children outperformed intellectually average children in terms of accuracy in processing tasks and specifically excelled in executive control. This suggests that intellectually gifted children have better ability to focus and solve simple perceptual conflicts compared to intellectually average children.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
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Psychology, Social
A. Merchan, P. Ruiz-Castaneda, M. T. Daza
Summary: This study evaluates the functioning of attentional networks in healthy subjects with high and low levels of affect intensity. Women scored higher on AI than men and were more represented in the H-AI cluster. Men showed faster response times in the Attentional Network Test, but had worse functioning of the alerting network compared to women.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Franziska Koder, Curtis Sharma, Sarah Cameron, Maria Garraffa
Summary: This systematic review finds that bilingualism does not have consistent positive or negative effects on attention deficits in adults or children with ADHD. The current research suggests that individuals with ADHD and their families need not worry about learning additional languages negatively impacting their functioning or cognitive performance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neuroimaging
Erin L. Meier, Catherine R. Kelly, Emily B. Goldberg, Argye E. Hillis
Summary: This study compared executive control abilities of acute stroke survivors with and without aphasia, finding that individuals with aphasia exhibited poorer performance on certain non-linguistic cognitive tasks. Damage to extrasylvian regions was related to executive control deficits, while language network damage was linked to naming impairments. These results suggest comorbid executive control impairments in individuals with aphasia could be linked to damage outside classic language network areas.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Stephen M. Wilson, Jillian L. Entrup, Sarah M. Schneck, Caitlin F. Onuscheck, Deborah F. Levy, Maysaa Rahman, Emma Willey, Marianne Casilio, Melodie Yen, Alexandra C. Brito, Wayneho Kam, L. Taylor Davis, Michael de Riesthal, Howard S. Kirshner
Summary: Most individuals with aphasia after stroke recover to some extent in the first year, and the recovery process is partially dependent on lesion location and extent. This study aims to provide a comprehensive description of patterns of recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke. It found that lesion location and extent, as well as different language domains, have an impact on aphasia recovery.
Review
Neurosciences
Corianne Rogalsky, Arianna N. LaCroix, Kuan-Hua Chen, Steven W. Anderson, Hanna Damasio, Tracy Love, Gregory Hickok
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2018)
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Clinical Neurology
Arianna N. LaCroix, Nicole Blumenstein, Chloe Houlihan, Corianne Rogalsky
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Arianna N. LaCroix, Nicole Blumenstein, McKayla Tully, Leslie C. Baxter, Corianne Rogalsky
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2020)
Review
Neurosciences
Arianna N. LaCroix, Eltonnelle James, Corianne Rogalsky
Summary: This study used a meta-analysis approach to investigate the functional reorganization patterns in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia during expressive and receptive language processes. The findings suggest differential recruitment of neural resources in the left and right hemispheres for language production and comprehension, with the right hemisphere playing a role in motor speech planning for language production and the left perilesional regions being engaged during language comprehension in post-stroke aphasia.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Arianna N. LaCroix, Alvaro F. Diaz, Corianne Rogalsky
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2015)