TY - JOUR
T1 - Attention network performance and psychopathic symptoms in early adolescence
T2 - An ERP study
AU - Racer, Kristina Hiatt
AU - Gilbert, Tara Torassa
AU - Luu, Phan
AU - Felver-Gant, Joshua
AU - Abdullaev, Yalchin
AU - Dishion, Thomas J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This project was supported by National Institutes of Health grants MH82127 to KHR and MH20012 and DA018760 to TJD.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - Reaction time (RT) and event-related potential (ERP) measures were used to examine the relationships between psychopathic symptoms and three major attention networks (alerting, orienting, and executive attention) among a community sample of youth. Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD; Frick and Hare 2001) total and subscale scores were negatively correlated with ERP measures of attentional alerting, indicating that youth with psychopathic symptoms had difficulty using warning cues to prepare for upcoming targets. APSD total scores were not related to performance on measures of orienting or executive attention, although weaker executive attention was found among youth with higher scores on the Impulsivity subscale. These findings support attention-based models of psychopathy and provide evidence of specific deficits in attentional alerting among youth with psychopathic traits. Deficiencies in attentional alerting may be related to noradrenergic functioning and may have cascading effects on higher order cognitive and affective processing.
AB - Reaction time (RT) and event-related potential (ERP) measures were used to examine the relationships between psychopathic symptoms and three major attention networks (alerting, orienting, and executive attention) among a community sample of youth. Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD; Frick and Hare 2001) total and subscale scores were negatively correlated with ERP measures of attentional alerting, indicating that youth with psychopathic symptoms had difficulty using warning cues to prepare for upcoming targets. APSD total scores were not related to performance on measures of orienting or executive attention, although weaker executive attention was found among youth with higher scores on the Impulsivity subscale. These findings support attention-based models of psychopathy and provide evidence of specific deficits in attentional alerting among youth with psychopathic traits. Deficiencies in attentional alerting may be related to noradrenergic functioning and may have cascading effects on higher order cognitive and affective processing.
KW - ANT
KW - Antisocial personality
KW - Attention
KW - Evoked potential
KW - Psychopathy
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U2 - 10.1007/s10802-011-9522-6
DO - 10.1007/s10802-011-9522-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 21607659
AN - SCOPUS:82755194742
SN - 0091-0627
VL - 39
SP - 1001
EP - 1012
JO - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
IS - 7
ER -