Visuospatial attentional shifts and choice responses of adults and ADHD and non-ADHD children.
Percept Mot Skills
; 79(3 Pt 2): 1479-90, 1994 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-7870533
ABSTRACT
18 adults, 17 ADHD children, and 18 non-ADHD children performed a choice-response task on which the spatial location of a target was sometimes compatible and sometimes incompatible with priming cues that varied between 50 and 1000 msec. Children's response latencies differed from adults' response latencies as a function of the delay between priming cue and target onset. A cost-benefit analysis indicated that valid stimulus cues facilitated performance and invalid stimulus cues impeded performance similarly for the three groups. Choice-response errors following invalid cues did not differ between ADHD and non-ADHD children; however, adults made more choice errors than children at 150-msec. and 300-msec. delay intervals. Developmental factors that may underlie differences between children's and adults' response speed and response accuracy are discussed.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Orientação
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Desempenho Psicomotor
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Tempo de Reação
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Atenção
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Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade
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Comportamento de Escolha
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Percept Mot Skills
Ano de publicação:
1994
Tipo de documento:
Article