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Children with low working memory and children with ADHD: same or different?

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2014
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Title
Children with low working memory and children with ADHD: same or different?
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00976
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Authors

Joni Holmes, Kerry A. Hilton, Maurice Place, Tracy P. Alloway, Julian G. Elliott, Susan E. Gathercole

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare working memory (WM), executive function, academic ability, and problem classroom behaviors in children aged 8-11 years who were either identified via routine screening as having low WM, or had been diagnosed with ADHD. Standardized assessments of WM, executive function and reading and mathematics were administered to 83 children with ADHD, 50 children with low WM and 50 typically developing children. Teachers rated problem behaviors on checklists measuring attention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, oppositional behavior, and difficulties associated with executive function in the classroom. The ADHD and low WM groups had highly similar WM and executive function profiles, but were distinguished in two key respects: children with ADHD had higher levels of rated and observed impulsive behavior, and children with low WM had slower response times. Possible mechanisms for these common and distinct deficits are discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 248 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 42 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 16%
Student > Bachelor 36 14%
Researcher 22 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 7%
Other 43 17%
Unknown 52 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 111 44%
Neuroscience 22 9%
Social Sciences 14 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 3%
Other 25 10%
Unknown 62 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 December 2020.
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#1,397,120
of 25,571,620 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#639
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#18,253
of 369,382 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#21
of 187 outputs
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