Measuring attentional networks together with executive and arousal vigilance, the ANTI-Vea task

BARTTFELD, PABLO; LUNA, FERNANDO GABRIEL; LUPIÁÑEZ, JUAN; ROCA, JAVIER

Madrid

Congreso; XII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicologia Experimental; 2018

Sociedad Española de Psicologia Experimental

This study presents the development of the Attentional Networks Test for Interactions and Vigilance ? executive and arousal components (ANTI-Vea), a new version of a widely used behavioral task for measuring simultaneously several attentional functions (alertness, orienting, and executive control). The main goal of the ANTI-Vea is to analyze the dissociation between two components of vigilance: executive vigilance, as the sustained goal-directed behavior for detecting unusual but critical events, and arousal vigilance, as the sustained tonic arousal level necessary to react quickly to stimuli from environment. We will present a large data collection (n=315), which leads us to conclude that the ANTI-Vea task improves the assessment of the different attentional functions, and it results suitable for observing the expected performance decrement across time in each vigilance component. Finally, we also looked to make this task available and easy to use in applied contexts. Therefore, we designed a publicly accessible website to run and collect data with the ANTI-Vea. We compare and discuss the results obtained with both the standard and the online version of the task.