Attention is proposed to be a system of multiple functional networks, including alertness, orienting and executive control. A popular experimental paradigm for testing these networks and their interactions within a single design is the Attentional Networks Test (ANT) (Fan et al., 2002). The role of the oculomotor system in these various networks, however, has not been tested despite the strong link between attention and eye movements. We modified the executive control component of the manual response ANT version (ANTm) that allows testing the networks’ involvement with oculomotor responses. Specifically, we used a central target to signal pro or anti-saccades that allows us to match the saccadic response compatibility of the original ANTm. We conducted three experiments to compare interactions of the networks between the traditional ANTm that used a flanker task response, our new ANTs with saccadic responses signalled with a fixation arrow, and a manual response version with the response arrow at fixation (ANTf). Results for all three experiments showed typical main effects of all three attention networks, but we observed differences in their interactions. The ANTm showed only an interaction of alerting enhancing the orienting; ANTs showed a congruency by orienting interaction with the orienting effect only observed for pro-saccades. The ANTf showed both alerting by orienting, and orienting by congruency. Although the saccadic response did differ from the original ANTm, key differences were also highlighted by the switch from peripheral to central target. Overall the proposed ANTf is a valid tool to test main effects of attentional networks. Further investigation of interaction differences between manual and oculomotor systems is required.

注意力被提出为一个具有多种功能网络的系统，包括警觉性、定向性和执行控制。用于测试这些网络及其在单个设计中的交互的流行实验范式是注意力网络测试 (ANT) (Fan et al., 2002)。然而，尽管注意力和眼球运动之间存在密切联系，但动眼神经系统在这些不同网络中的作用尚未经过测试。我们修改了手动响应 ANT 版本 (ANTm) 的执行控制组件，该组件允许测试网络参与动眼神经反应。具体来说，我们使用一个中心目标来发出 pro 或 anti saccades 的信号，这使我们能够匹配原始 ANTm 的扫视反应兼容性。我们进行了三个实验来比较使用侧翼任务响应的传统 ANTm、具有注视箭头的扫视响应的新 ANT 以及带有注视响应箭头 (ANTf) 的手动响应版本之间的网络交互。所有三个实验的结果都显示了所有三个注意力网络的典型主效应，但我们观察到它们相互作用的差异。ANTm 只显示了警报增强定向的交互作用；ANT 通过定向相互作用与仅在前眼跳中观察到的定向效应显示出一致性。ANTf 通过定向显示警报和通过一致性定向。尽管扫视反应确实与原始 ANTm 不同，但从外围目标切换到中心目标也突出了关键差异。总体而言，所提出的 ANTf 是测试注意力网络主要影响的有效工具。需要进一步研究手动和动眼神经系统之间的相互作用差异。