title: Attention network performance and psychopathic symptoms in early adolescence: an ERP study.
abstract: 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.
authors: Child and Family Center, University of Oregon, 195 W. 12th Ave., Eugene, OR 97401, USA. kdhiatt@uoregon.edu
authors: Kristina Hiatt
authors: KH
authors: Racer
authors: Tara Torassa
authors: TT
authors: Gilbert
authors: Phan
authors: P
authors: Luu
authors: Joshua
authors: J
authors: Felver-Gant
authors: Yalchin
authors: Y
authors: Abdullaev
authors: Thomas J
authors: TJ
authors: Dishion
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