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1.    Arnsten, A. F. (2009). Toward a new understanding of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder pathophysiology. CNS drugs, 23(1), 33-41.

2.    Astle, D. E., & Scerif, G. (2009). Using developmental cognitive neuroscience to study behavioral and attentional control. Developmental Psychobiology, 51(2), 107-118. doi: 10.1002/dev.20350. 

3.    Attention-Deficit, S. O. (2011). ADHD: clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Pediatrics, peds-2011. 

4.    Awh, E., Belopolsky, A. V., & Theeuwes, J. (2012). Top-down versus bottom-up attentional control: A failed theoretical dichotomy. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(8), 437-443. 

5.    Ballarini, F., Martínez, M. C., Perez, M. D., Moncada, D., & Viola, H. (2013). Memory in elementary school children is improved by an unrelated novel experience. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. PloS One, 8(6), e66875. 

6.    Berger, A., Kofman, O., Livneh, U., & Henik, A. (2007). Multidisciplinary perspectives on attention and the development of self-regulation. Progress in Neurobiology, 82(5), 256–286.

7.    Berman, M. G., Jonides, J., & Kaplan, S. (2008). The cognitive benefits of interacting with nature. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1207-1212. 

8.    Chabris, C. & Simons, D. (2010). The invisible gorilla (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

9.    Chun, M.M., et al. (2011). A taxonomy of external and internal attention. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 73–101. 

10. de la Cruz, L. F., Simonoff, E., McGough, J. J., Halperin, J. M., Arnold, L. E., & Stringaris, A. (2015). Treatment of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and irritability: results from the multimodal treatment study of children with ADHD (MTA). (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 54(1), 62-70. 

11. Deco, G., & Rolls, E. T. (2005). Attention, short-term memory, and action selection: A unifying theory. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Progress in Neurobiology, 76(4), 236–256.

12. Deco, G. & Rolls, E.T. (2003). Attention and working memory: a dynamical model of neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2374-2390. 

13. Dowd, E. W., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Attentional guidance by working memory overrides salience cues in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(6), 1786. 

14. Elliott, E. M., Hughes, R. W., Briganti, A., Joseph, T. N., Marsh, J. E., & Macken, B. (2016). Distraction in verbal short-term memory: Insights from developmental differences.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 39-50. 

15. Fair, D.A., et al. (2013). Distinct neural signatures detected for ADHD subtypes after controlling for micro-movements in resting state functional connectivity MRI data.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 6(80), 1-31.

16. Franklin, M. S., Smallwood, J., Zedelius, C. M., Broadway, J. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2016). Unaware yet reliant on attention: Experience sampling reveals that mind-wandering impedes implicit learning. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(1), 223-229. 

17. Hodgkins, P., Setyawan, J., Mitra, D., Davis, K., Quintero, J., Fridman, M., ... & Harpin, V. (2013). Management of ADHD in children across Europe: patient demographics, physician characteristics and treatment patterns. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. European Journal of Pediatrics, 172(7), 895-906. 

18. Jacobsen, M.H.S. (2010). Paying attention or fatally distracted? Concentration, memory, and multi-tasking in a multimedia world.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Salem, OR: Willamette University College of Law

19. Kasparek, T., Theiner, P., & Filova, A. (2013). Neurobiology of ADHD from childhood to adulthood: findings of imaging methods. Journal of Attention Disorders, 19(11), 931-943. 

20. Klasen, M, et al. (2011). Neural contributions to flow experience during video game playing. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Scan. doi:10.1093/scan/nsr021 

21. Kristjánsson, Á., Saevarsson, S., & Driver, J. (2013). The boundary conditions of priming of visual search: From passive viewing through task-relevant working memory load. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20(3), 514-521. 

22. Lagroix, H. E., Di Lollo, V., & Spalek, T. M. (2015). Is pop-out visual search attentive or preattentive? Yes!.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 556. 

23.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Mather, E. (2013). Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Frontiers in Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00491 

24. Mattfeld, A. T., Gabrieli, J. D., Biederman, J., Spencer, T., Brown, A., Kotte, A., ... & Whitfield-Gabrieli, S. (2014). Brain differences between persistent and remitted attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Brain, 137(9), 2423-2428.

25. McCann, D., et al. (2007). Food additives and hyperactive behaviour in 3-year-old and 8/9-year-old children in the community: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2007; 370: 1560–67.

26. McClelland, M. M., Acock, A. C., Piccinin, A., Rhea, S. A., & Stallings, M. C. (2013). Relations between preschool attention span-persistence and age 25 educational outcomes (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28(2), 314-324.

27. Miller, E. K., & Buschman, T. J. (2013). Cortical circuits for the control of attention. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 23(2), 216-222.

28. Moore, C. M., & Egeth H. (1997). Perception without attention: Evidence of grouping under conditions of inattention. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 339–352.

29. Morey, C. C., & Bieler, M. (2013). Visual short-term memory always requires general attention (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20(1), 163-170. 

30. Mundy, P., & Newell, L. (2007). Attention, joint attention, and social cognition. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16(5), 269–274.

31. Murphy, J. M., McCarthy, A. E., Baer, L., Zima, B. T., & Jellinek, M. S. (2014). Alternative national guidelines for treating attention and depression problems in children: comparison of treatment approaches and prescribing rates in the United Kingdom and United States.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 22(3), 179-192.

32. National Institutes of Mental Health. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

33. Nigg, J. T., Elmore, A. L., Natarajan, N., Friderici, K. H., & Nikolas, M. A. (2015). Variation in an iron metabolism gene moderates the association between blood lead levels and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children. Psychological Science, 27(2), 257-269.

34. Nigg, J. T., & Holton, K. (2014). Restriction and elimination diets in ADHD treatment. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America, 23(4), 937-953. 

35. Novartis. (2013). Ritalin prescribing information.

36. Oberwelland, E., Schilbach, L., Barisic, I., Krall, S. C., Vogeley, K., Fink, G. R., et al. (2016). Look into my eyes: Investigating joint attention using interactive eye-tracking and fMRI in a developmental sample. NeuroImage, 130, 248-260.

37. Owens, J. A. (2009). A clinical overview of sleep and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 18(2). 

38. Packard, R.G. (1970). The control of “classroom attention”: a group contingency for complex behavior. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of Applied Behavior,  3(1), 13-28. 

39. Perera, H., Jeewandara, K. C., Seneviratne, S., & Guruge, C. (2012). Combined ω3 and ω6 supplementation in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) refractory to methylphenidate treatment a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of Child Neurology, 27(6), 747-753.

40. Pessoa, L., et al. (2002). Neural processing of emotional faces requires attention.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.PNAS, 99(17), 11458-11463. 

41. Petersen, S. E., & Posner, M. I. (2012). The attention system of the human brain: 20 years after. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 35, 73.

42. Petersen, S. E., & Posner, M. I. (2012). The attention system of the human brain: 20 years after. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 35, 73. 

43. Posner, M. (2009). Michael Posner on the anatomy of attentional networks – a historical perspective. [video (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.] (19:49). goCognitive. Available at https://vimeo.com/5280169

44. Posner, M. I. (Ed.). (2011). Cognitive neuroscience of attention. Guilford Press.

45. Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2000). Developing mechanisms of self-regulation. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Development and psychopathology, 12(03), 427-441. 

46. Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2007). Research on attention networks as a model for the integration of psychological science. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 1-23.

47. Posner, M.I., & Rothbart, M.K. (2009). Toward a physical basis of attention and self regulation. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Physics of Life Reviews, 6(2), 103-120. 

48. Posner, M.I., Rothbart, M.K., & Rueda, M.R. (2014). Developing attention and self regulation in childhood. In K. Nobre & S. Kastner (eds.). Handbook of attention (pp.541-569). London: Oxford University Press.

49. Posner, M. I., Rothbart, M. K., & Tang, Y. Y. (2015). Enhancing attention through training. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 4, 1-5. 

50. Posner, M. I., Rothbart, M. K., Sheese, B. E., & Voelker, P. (2014). Developing attention: Behavioral and brain mechanisms. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Advances in Neuroscience. 

51. Posner, M.I., Rothbart, M.K., Sheese, B.E., & Voelker, P. (2012). Control networks and neuromodulators of early development. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Developmental Psychology, 48(3), 827-835 DOI:10.1037/a0025530. 

52. Posner, M. I., Rueda, M. R., & Kanske, P. (2007). Probing the mechanisms of attention. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Handbook of Psychophysiology, 410. 

53. Purper-Ouakil, D., Ramoz, N., Lepagnol-Bestel, A. M., Gorwood, P., & Simonneau, M. (2011). Neurobiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Pediatric Research, 69(5), 487-496. 

54. Ravizza, S.M. & Ivry, R.B. (2001). Comparison of the basal ganglia and cerebellum in shifting attention. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(3), 285–297.

55. Raz, A. & Buhl, J. (2006). T (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.ypologies of attentional networks. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Nature Reviews Neuroscience,7(5), 367-379.

56. Rolls, E.T., et al. (2008). Selective attention to affective value alters how the brain processes olfactory stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(10), 1815–1826.

57. Romero, P., & Calvillo-Gámez, E. (2012, September). Effortless attention and composite challenges in movement interaction. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers (pp. 157-164). British Computer Society. 

58. Rosen, C. (2008). The myth of multitasking. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. The New Atlantis, 20, 105–110. 

59. Rueda, M. R., Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2004). Attentional control and self-regulation. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications, 2, 284-299. Chicago.

60. Rueda, M. R., Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2005). The development of executive attention: Contributions to the emergence of self-regulation.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Developmental Neuropsychology, 28(2), 573-594. 

61. Rueda, M. R., Rothbart, M. K., McCandliss, B. D., Saccomanno, L., & Posner, M. I. (2005). Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(41), 14931-14936. 

62. Rueda, M.R., & Posner, M.I. (2013). Development of attention networks. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.In P. D. Zelazo (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology vol. I Body and Mind (pp. 683-705). 

63. Rueda, M.R., Fan, J., Halparin, J., Gruber, D., Lercari, L.P., McCandliss B.D., & Posner, M.I. (2004). Development of attention during childhood.Neuropsychologia, 42(8), 1029-1040. 

64. Sáez, L., Folsom, J. S., Al Otaiba, S., & Schatschneider, C. (2012). Relations among student attention behaviors, teacher practices, and beginning word reading skill.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Journal of learning disabilities, 45(5), 418-432.

65. Schwartzstein, J. (2014). Selective attention and learning. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(6), 1423-1452. 

66. Shannon, B. J., Raichle, M. E., Snyder, A. Z., Fair, D. A., Mills, K. L., Zhang, D., ... & Stevens, A. A. (2011). Premotor functional connectivity predicts impulsivity in juvenile offenders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(27), 11241-11245. 

67. Shaw, G.A. & Brown, G. (1991). Laterality, implicit memory, and attention disorder. Educational Studies, 17(1), 15.

68. Shaw, P., et al. (2007). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation. PNAS, 104(49), 19649–19654.

69. Sheese, B. E., Voelker, P, Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2009). Genetic variation influences on the early development of reactive emotions and their regulation by attention. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 14(4-5), 332- 355. 

70. Simmons, D.J. & Chabris, C.F. (1990) Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28, 1059-1074.

71. Smith, D. T., Ball, K., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2010). Deficits of reflexive attention induced by abduction of the eye.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Neuropsychologia, 48(5), 1269-1276. 

72. Shaw, P., et al (2007).  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation. PNAS, 104(49), 19649-19654.

73. Sörqvist, P., Stenfelt, S., & Rönnberg, J. (2012). Working memory capacity and visual–verbal cognitive load modulate auditory–sensory gating in the brainstem: Toward a unified view of attention (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(11), 2147-2154. 

74. Sylvester, C. M., Corbetta, M., Raichle, M. E., Rodebaugh, T. L., Schlaggar, B. L., Sheline, Y. I., ... & Lenze, E. J. (2012). Functional network dysfunction in anxiety and anxiety disorders. Trends in Neurosciences, 35(9), 527-535.

75. Swann, C., Keegan, R., et. al. (2012). A systematic review of the experience, occurrence, and controllability of flow in states in elite sport. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 807-819.

76. Swan, C., et al. (2012). A systematic review of the experience, occurrence, and controllability of flow states in elite sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 807-819.

77. Tang, Y. Y., Posner, M. I., & Rothbart, M. K. (2014). Meditation improves self‐regulation over the life span. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1307(1), 104-111. 

78. Tang, Y. Y., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2012). Neural correlates of establishing, maintaining, and switching brain states.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(6), 330-337.

79. Thomson, D. R., & Milliken, B. (2013). Contextual distinctiveness produces long-lasting priming of pop-out.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(1), 202.Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2014). Making classrooms better: Best practices 1-5 (attention and memory) [video (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.] (12:20 minutes). 

80. Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2014). Making classrooms better: Best practices 11-16 (attention; affect) [video (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.] (19:44; 33:58 minutes).

81. Treisman, A. (1986). Features and objects in visual processing. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Scientific American, 255(5), 114-125. 

82. Voelker, P., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2016). A polymorphism related to methylation influences attention during performance of speeded skills. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.AIMS Neuroscience, 3(1), 40-55. 

83. Voelker, P., Sheese, B. E., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2016). Methylation polymorphism influences practice effects in children during attention tasks. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-13.

84. Vogel, A. C., Miezin, F. M., Petersen, S. E., & Schlaggar, B. L. (2011). The putative visual word form area is functionally connected to the dorsal attention network. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Cerebral cortex, 22(3), 537-549.

85. Volkman, J. (2014). Flow: Effortless and complete attention (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. [video] (16:55 mins). Harvard University (PSYCE-1609).

86. Volkman, J. (2016). Week 11: Attention. [slides]. Harvard University (PSYCE-1609).

87. Vuilleumier, P. (2005). How brains beware: neural mechanisms of emotional attention.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 585-594. 

88. Willcutt, E. G., Doyle A. E., Nigg, J. T., Faraone, S. V., & Pennington, B. F. (2005). Validity of the executive function theory of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analytic review (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Biological Psychiatry, 57(11), 1336–1346.

89. Wilson, K. & Korn, J.H. (2007). Attention during lectures: Beyond ten minutes. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Teaching of Psychology, 34(2), 85-89. 

90. Wu, F., & Huberman, B. A. (2007). Novelty and collective attention. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(45), 17599-17601. 

91. Xia, S., Foxe, J. J., Sroubek, A. E., Branch, C., & Li, X. (2014). Topological organization of the “small-world” visual attention network in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. 

92. Zajonc, R. B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 9(2), 1-27.

93. Zima, B. T., Bussing, R., Tang, L., Zhang, L., Ettner, S., Belin, T. R., & Wells, K. B. (2010). Quality of care for childhood attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a managed care Medicaid program. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(12), 1225. 

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