Journal
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.2148
Keywords
attention network test; attentional processes; executive control; intellectual giftedness
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Funding
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- Regional Council of Haut de France
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Intellectually gifted children outperformed intellectually average children in terms of accuracy in processing tasks and specifically excelled in executive control. This suggests that intellectually gifted children have better ability to focus and solve simple perceptual conflicts compared to intellectually average children.
Introduction Intellectually gifted children have higher performance in many domains of attention than intellectually average children. However, these empirical findings are not consistent in the literature. Few studies investigated the characteristics of alerting, orienting, and executive control networks in intellectually gifted children. The aim of our study was to investigate their characteristics of attentional abilities compared to intellectually average children. Method Fifty-five intellectually gifted children (age range 8-14 years old) were compared to 55 intellectually average children (age range 8-14 years old) using the Attention Network Test (ANT) to assess these three attentional constructs. Results Intellectually gifted children made fewer errors than intellectually average children in the processing of the ANT. In terms of attention network scores, they also outperformed intellectually average children in executive control only. Conclusion Intellectually gifted children do not differ from intellectual average children in terms of the speed of processing in a speeded task such as ANT, but they stand out in terms of accuracy of processing. Intellectually gifted children have better ability to focus volitionally in order to solve a simple perceptual conflict than intellectually average children.
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