Adolescents show higher target-detection sensitivity (d-prime) for high-interest than low-interest stimuli, with better performance in the right hemifield¶
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q3 i? Detection sensitivity was higher for high-interest than low-interest stimuli, and higher in the right hemifield, with a significant motivation by stimulus location interaction. → Banerjee Snigdha 2015
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Banerjee Snigdha 2015¶
Banerjee Snigdha, Frey Hans-Peter, Molholm Sophie, Foxe John J. (2015). Interests shape how adolescents pay attention: The interaction of motivation and top-down attentional processes in biasing sensory activations to anticipated events. The European Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12810
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Behavioral ANOVA in the cued spatial attention task of 24 male adolescents (mean age 15.07). The authors report these findings were "driven by higher d-prime scores for high versus low interest stimuli, and higher d-prime scores in the right hemifield." No effect size printed.
"For d-prime, there was a significant main effect of motivation (F(1,23) = 12.27, p = .002), a significant main effect of stimulus location (F(1,23) = 14.26, p = .001), and a significant motivation by stimulus location interaction (F(1,23) = 17.63, p < .001)."
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Adolescents show higher target-detection sensitivity (d-prime) for high-interest than low-interest stimuli, with better performance in the right hemifield |
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Adolescents show higher target-detection sensitivity (d-prime) for high-interest than low-interest stimuli, with better performance in the right hemifield |
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