Notesale: Turn your study into money

Evaluation of Attention & Spatial Cueing based on Posner Paradigm (Posner Cueing Task)

The Posner Cueing Task, also known as the Posner paradigm, is a neuropsychological test often used to assess attention. Formulated by Michael Posner, the task assesses an individual’s ability to perform an attentional shift. It has been used and modified to assess disorders, focal brain injury, and the effects of both on spatial attention. Accordingly, this report is devoted to discussion of the results of experiments in human spatial attention and a comparison of them with same approaches as Posner performed in 1980. If there should emerge satisfactory convergence between human performance and physiological approaches with this simple model system, the psychological methods used to explore attention in more complex tasks will receive added support. In addition, studies of human performance may help investigators of neural systems toward the needed integration of their studies of separate anatomical structures.