Attentional Orienting in Working Memory in Children with ADHD
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- Superbia-Guimarães, Luísa ORCID Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bader, Michel Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Camos, Valérie ORCID Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 2022
Published in:
- Developmental Neuropsychology. - Informa UK Limited. - 2022, vol. 47, no. 8, p. 384-400
English
Children with attentional-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impairments in working memory (WM) functioning. Impaired orienting of visual attention during encoding and/or maintenance is hypothesized as the cause of poor performance in visuospatial WM in 10-to-16-year-olds. We used a color-recognition task with valid location cues before encoding (pre-cues) and during maintenance (retro-cues). If ADHD children have an orienting deficit during these processing stages, they should not benefit from the cues. We observed strong pre- and retro-cueing benefits both for ADHD and typically developing controls, with no differences between the groups. This strengthens findings showing that ADHD is not characterized by deficits in orienting attention and provides evidence of retro-cue benefits in this population.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
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- Open access status
- green
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- DOI 10.1080/87565641.2022.2155164
- ISSN 8756-5641
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334844
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