Department of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; Dipartimento di Psicologia, "Sapienza" Università di Roma, Italy.
Department of Neuroscience, Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, 'Tor Vergata' University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Psychiatry Res. 2017 May;251:148-154. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.094. Epub 2017 Feb 9.
The aim of this research was to assess implicit processing of social and non-social distracting cues in children with ADHD. Young people with ADHD and matched controls were asked to classify target words (LEFT/RIGHT) which were accompanied by a distracter eye-gaze or arrow. Typically developing participants showed evidence of interference effects from both eye-gaze and arrow distracters. In contrast, the ADHD group showed evidence of interference effects from arrow but failed to show interference from eye-gaze. This absence of interference effects from eye-gaze observed in the participants with ADHD may reflect an attentional impairment in attending to socially relevant information.
本研究旨在评估 ADHD 儿童对社会和非社会分心线索的内隐处理。研究要求 ADHD 儿童和匹配对照组对目标词(LEFT/RIGHT)进行分类,同时目标词旁边还会出现分心的眼神或箭头。通常情况下,参与者的眼神和箭头都会对他们的分类产生干扰。相比之下,ADHD 组的参与者只有在箭头出现时才会受到干扰,而眼神干扰则不明显。在 ADHD 参与者中观察到的眼神干扰缺失可能反映了他们在关注社会相关信息方面的注意力缺陷。