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Sustaining attention to simple visual tasks: a central deficit in schizophrenia? A systematic review

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Impairments in sustained attention, that is, the ability to achieve and maintain the focus of cognitive activity on a given stimulation source or task, have been described as central to schizophrenia. Today, sustained attention deficit is still considered as a hallmark of schizophrenia. Nevertheless, current findings on this topic are not consistent. To clarify these findings, we attempt to put these results into perspective according to the type of assessment (i.e., overall and over time assessment), the participants’ characteristics (i.e., clinical and demographic characteristics), and the paradigms (i.e., traditionally formatted tasks, go/no-go tasks, and the sustained attention task) and measures used. Two types of assessment lead to opposite findings; they do not evaluate sustained attention the same way. Studies using overall assessments of sustained attention ability tend to reveal a deficit, whereas studies using over time assessments do not. Therefore, further research is needed to investigate the underlying cognitive control mechanisms of changes in sustained attention in schizophrenia.

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Psychologie
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hal-03616823 , version 1 (22-03-2022)

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Marc Hoonakker, Nadège Doignon-Camus, Anne Bonnefond. Sustaining attention to simple visual tasks: a central deficit in schizophrenia? A systematic review. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2017, 1408 (1), pp.32-45. ⟨10.1111/nyas.13514⟩. ⟨hal-03616823⟩
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