Phasic alertness indicated by simple motor reaction time in late childhood: The effect of age and sex
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15510%2F21%3A73608348" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15510/21:73608348 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00064203:_____/21:10434524 RIV/00216208:11130/21:10434524
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.gymnica.upol.cz/artkey/gym-202101-0022_phasic_alertness_indicated_by_simple_motor_reaction_time_in_late_childhood_the_effect_of_age_and_sex.php" target="_blank" >https://www.gymnica.upol.cz/artkey/gym-202101-0022_phasic_alertness_indicated_by_simple_motor_reaction_time_in_late_childhood_the_effect_of_age_and_sex.php</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ag.2021.022" target="_blank" >10.5507/ag.2021.022</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Phasic alertness indicated by simple motor reaction time in late childhood: The effect of age and sex
Original language description
Background: In contrast to strongly established views on the development of tonic, top-down controlled alertness, a small number of neurobehavioral and neurophysiological studies deal with the developmental trajectory of exogenously driven phasic alertness during childhood. Objective: The current study aimed to examine the age and sex effects on phasic alerting during late childhood, and to analyse the degree of association between tonic and phasic alertness at the behavioural level. Methods: Three age groups of typically developing children, aged 10, 11 and 12 years (N = 59, 27 boys, 32 girls) performed a computer-based simple hand-eye reaction test of alertness that involved 28 trials with and 28 trials without a warning signal. Results: The results showed a moderate decrease of mean reaction time in both the alert and non-alert conditions with age. However, the alert effect calculated as the difference in reaction times achieved in alert and non-alert conditions was not affected by age and sex. Conclusions: In contrast to previous suggestions on possible continuing improvement in phasic alertness during late childhood, the current study suggested that the neurocognitive function of transient enhancement in attentional alertness (phasic alertness) does not change and it is stabilized in this developmental period. In addition, this function does not differ between males and females in childhood.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30306 - Sport and fitness sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-18787S" target="_blank" >GA19-18787S: The effects of the quiet eye method on attention, and cognitive and sensorimotor functions in children with ADHD</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Gymnica
ISSN
2336-4912
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
November
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
"e2021.0221-1"-"e2021.0221-7"
UT code for WoS article
000721729700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85119607314