Dissociations Within the Anterior Attentional （让在前注意力）.pdf

Neuropsychology Copyright 2002 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 2002, Vol. 16, No. 4, 500–513 0894-4105/02/$5.00 DOI: 10.1037//0894-4105.16.4.500 Dissociations Within the Anterior Attentional System: Effects of Task Complexity and Irrelevant Information on Reaction Time Speed and Accuracy Donald T. Stuss Malcolm A. Binns and Kelly J. Murphy Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and University of Toronto Michael P. Alexander Harvard Medical School and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care Patients with focal frontal or nonfrontal lesions were compared with control participants on 4 reaction time (RT) tasks varying in levels of complexity based on a feature-integration model of detection. Superior medial lesions affected simple RT speed. Increasing the demands of feature detection did not differentially affect speed of correct responses among the groups. Frontal structures appear to play little role in correct integration of features during detection. The analysis of error types within the complex task revealed a frontal lobe hemispheric distinction between sensitivity and bias: right dorsolateral—decreased sensitivity; left dor- solateral—altered response bias. The frontal lobes, particularly right dorsolateral, were re