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Assessing the molecular genetics of attention networks.
BMC neuroscience - 4 Oct 2002
Fossella John, Sommer Tobias, Fan Jin, Wu Yanhong, Swanson James M, Pfaff Donald W, Posner Michael I
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BACKGROUND: Current efforts to study the genetic underpinnings of higher brain functions have been lacking appropriate phenotypes to describe cognition. One of the problems is that many cognitive concepts for which there is a single word (e.g. attention) have been shown to be related to several anatomical networks. Recently, we have developed an Attention Network Test (ANT) that provides a separate measure for...
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