Author:
Niiyama Saki, ,Yano Shiro,Kondo Toshiyuki
Abstract
Regional cerebral activity related to attention may be more useful as an evaluation index for attention levels than conventional task performance score-based methods. We therefore researched whether the quantitative evaluation of attention using regional cerebral activity, measured using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), was appropriate. NIRS signals during the continuous performance test (CPT), which is well known as an attention test, were measured and analyzed. We confirmed activities in the regions that may be associated with the right-side anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and on the estimated dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Furthermore, there was a high correlation between activity on the DLPFC related to executive function and the performance score. Our study using cerebral activity could not quantify attention, but it opened the possibility of quantifying levels of executive function.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Publisher
Fuji Technology Press Ltd.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,General Computer Science
Reference25 articles.
1. S. Ishiai, “Learning of higher brain dysfunction,” 2nd Ed., Ishiyaku Publishers, Inc., 2017 (in Japanese).
2. Japan Society for Higher Brain Dysfunction, “Clinical assessment for attention and spontaneity,” Shinkoh Igaku Shuppansha Co., Ltd., 2008 (in Japanese).
3. M. G. Tana, E. Montin, S. Cerutti, and A. M. Bianchi, “Exploring cortical attentional system by using fMRI during a continuous performance test,” Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Article ID 329213, doi: 10.1155/2010/329213, 2010.
4. H. Yamasaki, K. S. LaBar, and G. McCarthy, “Dissociable prefrontal brain systems for attention and emotion,” PNAS, Vol.99, No.17, pp. 11447-11451, doi: 10.1073/pnas.182176499, 2002.
5. G. Bush, J. A. Frazier, S. L. Rauch, L. J. Seidman, P. J. Whalen, M. A. Jenike, B. R. Rosen, and J. Biederman, “Anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder revealed by fMRI and the counting stroop,” Biological Psychiatry, Vol.45, No.12, pp. 1542-1552, 1999.