Attention network test - The impact of social information on executive control, alerting and orienting Federico, Francesca Marotta, Andrea Adriani, Tiziana Maccari, Lisa Casagrande, Maria According to the attention network approach, attention is best understood in terms of three functionally and neuroanatomically distinct networks — alerting, orienting, and executive attention. An important question is whether social information influences the efficiency of these networks. Using the same structure as the Attentional Network Test (ANT), we developed a variant of this test to examine attentional effects in response to stimuli with and without social-cognitive content. Fish, drawings or photographs of faces looking to the left or right were used as target stimuli. Results collected from twenty-four university students showed that photographs of faces positively affected attentional orienting and executive control, whereas reducedthe efficiency of alerting, as compared to both face drawings and fish. These results support the status of human faces as a special class of visual stimuli for the human attentional systems 2024-01-23T08:12:26Z 2024-01-23T08:12:26Z 2013 journal article Federico, F., Marotta, A., Adriani, T., Maccari, L., & Casagrande, M. (2013). Attention network test—The impact of social information on executive control, alerting and orienting. Acta Psychologica, 143(1), 65-70. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87115 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.02.006 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional