The rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task and continuous performance tasks (CPT)
are used to assess attentional impairments in patients with psychiatric and neurological …

Rationale Attention is compromised in many psychiatric disorders, including attention-
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While dopamine and noradrenaline systems have …

At its broadest level, attention is the ability to focus on and respond appropriately to specific
features of the environment. Abnormalities in attention accompany and can even be cardinal …

Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) tasks have been frequently used to assess
attentional control in psychiatric samples; however, it is unclear whether RSVP tasks exhibits …

Introduction: Sustained attention is known to be dysfunctional in psychotic disorders.
Sustained attention is the ability to remain focused on a specific time-locked stimulus within …

Rats were trained to respond to the lever above which a light stimulus was briefly (0.5 s)
presented at unpredictable times. Once the task had been learned to criterion, subjects were …

Attention is a cognitive domain often disrupted in neuropsychiatric disorders and continuous
performance tests (CPTs) are common clinical assays of attention. In CPTs, participants …

Five squirrel monkeys served under a simultaneous discrimination paradigm with visual
compound stimuli that allowed measurement of excitatory and inhibitory control exerted by …

Abstract Rationale Continuous performance tests (CPTs) are widely used to assess
attentional processes in a variety of disorders including Alzheimer's disease and …

Neuropsychiatric research has utilized cognitive testing in rodents to improve our
understanding of cognitive deficits and for preclinical drug development. However, more …