Citation

Marotta A, Pasini A, Menotti E, Pasquini A, Pitzianti MB, Casagrande M. Psychiatry Res. 2017; 251: 148-154.

Affiliation

Dipartimento di Psicologia, "Sapienza" Università di Roma, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.094

PMID

28199914

Abstract

The aim of this research was to assess implicit processing of social and non-social distracting cues in children with ADHD. Young people with ADHD and matched controls were asked to classify target words (LEFT/RIGHT) which were accompanied by a distracter eye-gaze or arrow. Typically developing participants showed evidence of interference effects from both eye-gaze and arrow distracters. In contrast, the ADHD group showed evidence of interference effects from arrow but failed to show interference from eye-gaze. This absence of interference effects from eye-gaze observed in the participants with ADHD may reflect an attentional impairment in attending to socially relevant information.

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Language: en

Keywords

ADHD; Arrow; Cognitive control; Eye-gaze; Social attention