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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-12
pubmed:abstractText
Children's attention is easily diverted from a current activity to a new event in the environment. This was indexed in school-age children by diminished performance speed and accuracy in a visual discrimination task caused by task-irrelevant novel sounds. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) elicited by these distracting sounds showed a prominent positive deflection that was generated by brain processes associated with involuntary switching of attention to novel sounds. Recordings of the magnetoencephalographic (MEG) counterpart of this brain activity revealed a major bilateral generator source in the superior temporal cortex. However, ERP scalp distributions indicated also overlapping brain activity generated in other brain areas involved in involuntary attention switching. Moreover, differences in ERP amplitudes and in their correlations with the reaction times between younger (7-10 years) and older (11-13 years) children indicated developmental changes in attentional brain functions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0304-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
314
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
147-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Acoustic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Aging, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Auditory Perception, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Child, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Discrimination Learning, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Electroencephalography, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Event-Related Potentials, P300, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Magnetoencephalography, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Nerve Net, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Pattern Recognition, Visual, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Photic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Psychomotor Performance, pubmed-meshheading:11704305-Reaction Time
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Brain activity index of distractibility in normal school-age children.
pubmed:affiliation
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 13, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland. valentina.gumenyuk@helsinki.fi
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't