Repeated Measurement of the Components of Attention With Young Children Using the Attention Network Test: Stability, Isolability, Robustness, and Reliability

Yoko Ishigami, Raymond M. Klein

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The current study examined the robustness, stability, reliability, and isolability of the attention network scores (alerting, orienting, and executive control) when young children experienced repeated administrations of the child version of the Attention Network Test (ANT; Rueda et al., 2004). Ten test sessions of the ANT were administered to 12 young children. Participants were asked to indicate the direction of a target fish, flanked by distractors, presented either above or below the fixation cross following different types of visual cues. Network scores, reflecting alerting, orienting, and executive control, were calculated using orthogonal subtractions of performance in selected conditions. Only the alerting network scores remained highly significant across the 10 sessions. The executive network scores showed some practice effects. The reliability of the network scores remained poor regardless of the amount of data. Based on the results, use of the ANT is cautioned against in young children when repeated testing is required.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)144-159
Número de páginas16
PublicaciónJournal of Cognition and Development
Volumen16
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublished - ene. 1 2015

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Funding Information:
This research was made possible by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery grant to Raymond M. Klein and scholarship support to Yoko Ishigami from the Killam Trust and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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