Attention Network Test (ANT) Papers
Dear colleagues:
During the last several years at the Sackler Institute we have been trying to link imaging data on networks of attention to individual performance and underlying genes.
The following five papers describe our work to date. (Click on [pdf] to download.) The most recent, "Attentional phenotypes...." is the shortest to read and describes the overall strategy. More genetic, child, and deficit population data is currently under preparation and review, and will be listed here in the near future.
--Mike Posner
Fan, J., McCandliss, B.D., Sommer, T., Raz, M. & Posner, M.I. (2002) Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 340-347 [pdf]
Fan, J, Wu, Y., Fossella, J. & Posner, M.I. (2001) Assessing the heritability of attentional networks BioMed Central Neuroscience,2:14. [pdf]
Fossella, J.A., Sommer, T., Fan, J., Wu, Y., Swanson, J.M., Pfaff, D.W. & Posner M.I.(2002). Assessing the molecular genetics of attention networks. BMC Neuroscience, 3:14. [pdf]
Fossella, J., Posner, M.I., Fan, J.Swanson, J.M. & Pfaff, D.W. (2002) Attentional phenotypes for the analysis of higher mental function. The Scientific World. [pdf]
Fan, J., Fossella, J.A., Sommer, T., Wu, Y., & Posner M.I. (2003). Mapping the genetic variation of executive attention onto brain activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100(12), 7406-7411 [pdf]
Posner, M.I. & Fan, J. (in press) Attention as an Organ System. To appear in J. Pomerantz (Editor) Neurobiology of Perception and Communication:From Synapse to Society the IVth De Lange Conference. CambridgeUK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
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