When attention is intact in adults with ADHD |
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Authors: | Mariel Roberts Brandon K Ashinoff F Xavier Castellanos Marisa Carrasco |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Psychology,New York University,New York,USA;2.School of Psychology,University of Birmingham,Birmingham,UK;3.NYU Child Study Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,New York University Langone Medical Center,New York,USA;4.Center for Neural Science,New York University,New York,USA |
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Abstract: | Is covert visuospatial attention—selective processing of information in the absence of eye movements—preserved in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? Previous findings are inconclusive due to inconsistent terminology and suboptimal methodology. To settle this question, we used well-established spatial cueing protocols to investigate the perceptual effects of voluntary and involuntary attention on an orientation discrimination task for a group of adults with ADHD and their neurotypical age-matched and gender-matched controls. In both groups, voluntary attention significantly improved accuracy and decreased reaction times at the relevant location, but impaired accuracy and slowed reaction times at irrelevant locations, relative to a distributed attention condition. Likewise, involuntary attention improved accuracy and speeded responses. Critically, the magnitudes of all these orienting and reorienting attention effects were indistinguishable between groups. Thus, these counterintuitive findings indicate that spatial covert attention remains functionally intact in adults with ADHD. |
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