title: Contingent negative variation and attentional performance in humans.
abstract: The relation between a paper-pencil test of sustained attention (d2-letter cancellation test, d2-LCT) and the contingent negative variation (CNV) as a cortical slow potential was calculated in 23 healthy undergraduate students. Both d2-LCT and CNV reflect selective, focussed attention. There was a Pearson correlation coefficient of r = -0.670 between the early component of the CNV and the number of checked letters in d2-LCT, indicating significant differences in early CNV between low and high performance in d2-LCT. The results showed a linear relationship between paper-pencil registered attentional properties and the cortically recorded early component of CNV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Psychology, Center of Nervous Diseases, University of Kiel, Germany. kropp@med-psych.uni-kiel.de
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kropp
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Linstedt
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Niederberger
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Gerber
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012737:Sex Factors