| Title |
ADHD and Working Memory: The Impact of Central Executive Deficits and Exceeding Storage/Rehearsal Capacity on Observed Inattentive Behavior
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, September 2009
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10802-009-9357-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael J. Kofler, Mark D. Rapport, Jennifer Bolden, Dustin E. Sarver, Joseph S. Raiker |
| Abstract |
Inattentive behavior is considered a core and pervasive feature of ADHD; however, an alternative model challenges this premise and hypothesizes a functional relationship between working memory deficits and inattentive behavior. The current study investigated whether inattentive behavior in children with ADHD is functionally related to the domain-general central executive and/or subsidiary storage/rehearsal components of working memory. Objective observations of children's attentive behavior by independent observers were conducted while children with ADHD (n = 15) and typically developing children (n = 14) completed counterbalanced tasks that differentially manipulated central executive, phonological storage/rehearsal, and visuospatial storage/rehearsal demands. Results of latent variable and effect size confidence interval analyses revealed two conditions that completely accounted for the attentive behavior deficits in children with ADHD: (a) placing demands on central executive processing, the effect of which is evident under even low cognitive loads, and (b) exceeding storage/rehearsal capacity, which has similar effects on children with ADHD and typically developing children but occurs at lower cognitive loads for children with ADHD. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 278 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 49 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 11% |
| Researcher | 30 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 30 | 10% |
| Other | 47 | 16% |
| Unknown | 60 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 139 | 49% |
| Neuroscience | 15 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 32 | 11% |
| Unknown | 64 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
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