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Differences in Executive Functioning in Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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Title
Differences in Executive Functioning in Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00976
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M. Rosa Elosúa, Sandra Del Olmo, María José Contreras

Abstract

In recent years, the interest in Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its relation to deficits in working memory (WM) and more specifically the different executive functions (EFs) has grown, to the point of confirming that these are quite frequent in this disorder. The aim of this study was precisely to explore differences in executive functioning of WM in fourth grade Primary school children with and without ADHD (26 and 29 children, respectively), introducing rigorous control measures in the tests used. Four EFs were analyzed: divided attention, updating, attentional shifting and inhibition, measured through four tasks, the dual-task paradigm (digits and box-crossing), the N-Back task, the Trail Making Test and the Stroop task, respectively. The results showed that participants with ADHD, compared to children with typical development (TD), exhibited a smaller verbal memory span as well as deficits in the attentional shifting and updating functions. However, a similar performance for the EF of inhibition was found for both groups of participants. Finally, an unexpected result was obtained with regard to the role of divided attention, as children with ADHD were less impaired when performing the double task than participants in the TD group.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 17%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Researcher 6 5%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 50 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 40 33%
Neuroscience 8 7%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Linguistics 2 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 53 44%
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