The three attentional networks: On their independence and interactions

@article{Callejas2004TheTA,
  title={The three attentional networks: On their independence and interactions},
  author={Alicia Callejas and Juan Lupi{\'a}{\~n}ez and P{\'i}o Tudela},
  journal={Brain and Cognition},
  year={2004},
  volume={54},
  pages={225-227}
}
The present investigation was aimed to the study of the three attentional networks (Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Function) and their interactions. A modification of the task developed by Fan, McCandliss, Sommer, Raz, and Posner (2002) was used, in which a cost and benefit paradigm was combined with a flanker task and an alerting signal. We obtained significant interactions as predicted. The alerting network seemed to inhibit the executive function network (a larger flanker-congruency… Expand
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