A neurocognitive psychometrics account of individual differences in attentional control. - PsycNET

https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001184Schubert, A.-L., L öffler, C.,& Hagemann, D. (2022). A neurocognitive psychometrics account of individual differences in attentional control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001184Attention control processes play an important role in many substantial psychological theories but are hard to reliably and validly measure on the subject-level. Therefore, associations between individual differences in attentional control and other variables are often inconsistent. Here we propose a novel neurocognitive psychometrics account of attentional control that integrates model parameters from the dual-stage two-phase model (H übner et al., 2010), a mathematical model of selective attention, with neural correlates of conflict processing (i.e., latencies of the stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential) in a multilayer structural equation model framework. We analyzed data from 150 participants who completed the Erik sen Flanker task while their EEG was recorded and used the neurocognitive psychometric approach to distinguish between two sequential stages of information-processing—target selection and response selection. Model parameters and neural correlates showed convergent validity and could be meaningfull y related to each other. Together, these neurocognitive process parameters jointly explained 37 % of the variance in individual differe...
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