Attention orienting and inhibitory control across the different mood states in bipolar disorder: an emotional
antisaccade task.
Antisaccade performance is impaired in medically and psychiatrically healthy biological relatives of schizophrenia patients.
It was found that proactive interference affected low-span participants more than high-span (Kane & Engle, 2000), high-span participants were less vulnerable than low-span to salient distractors in a dichotic listening task (Conway, Cowan, & Bunting, 2001), high-span identified
antisaccade targets faster than low-span in a
antisaccade task (Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle, 2001) and high-span were faster or less error prone than low-span in a Stroop task (Kane & Engle, 2003; Long & Prat, 2002).
An appropriate distractor is the
antisaccade task [Hallet 1978].
Prefrontal cognitive processes: Working memory and inhibition in the
antisaccade task.
Some studies have found fast ball game players have faster visually guided saccades and shorter latency of
antisaccade task (Lenoir M, Crevits L, Goethals M, et al, 2000, Jafarzadehpur E, Aazami N, Bolouri B.
The
antisaccade task as a research tool in psychopathology: a critical review.
In their study, the participants with large WM capacity were not only faster in performing
antisaccade tasks, but also less likely to make reflexive saccades to an exogenous cue on the wrong side of the screen.
This relation has been shown in different paradigms, such as paired-associated learning tasks (Rosen & Engle, 1998),
antisaccade tasks (Kane, Conway, Bleckley & Engle, 2001), the "cocktail-party" phenomenon (Conway, Cowan, & Bunting, 2001), the STROOP task (Long & Prat, 2002) or interference paradigms (Kane & Engle, 2000; Soriano, Macizo & Bajo, 2004).
One such task that measures distraction and inhibitory processing is the
antisaccade task.
An
antisaccade set (25 trials), required the subject to look in the direction opposite the visual target, presented in randomized order.
The endophenotypes under investigation include attention, as measured by the continuous performance task; working and verbal memory; and neurophysiologic parameters such as prepulse inhibition of the startle response and
antisaccade eye movement, an index of the ability to avoid distraction.
