Tannock R, Purvis K L, Schachar R J
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1993 Feb;21(1):103-17. doi: 10.1007/BF00910492.
A story retelling task was used to assess narrative abilities in 30 boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 30 normally developing boys, matched on age and IQ. Each boy listened to two stories and retold them for another child. Results indicated that the two groups did not differ in their ability to comprehend and extract the main ideas from the stories, but did differ in the production of narratives. Boys with ADHD provided less information overall, and their stories were more poorly organized and less cohesive and contained more inaccuracies. As a result, their stories were often confused and hard to follow. Organization and monitoring of information are functions of executive control. Thus the observed deficits in narrative production in children with ADHD may reflect underlying deficits in executive processes.
一项故事复述任务被用于评估30名患有注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）的男孩和30名发育正常的男孩的叙事能力，这两组男孩在年龄和智商上相匹配。每个男孩听两个故事，然后给另一个孩子复述。结果表明，两组在理解和提取故事主要内容的能力上没有差异，但在叙事表达上存在差异。患有ADHD的男孩总体提供的信息较少，他们的故事组织性更差、连贯性更弱且包含更多不准确之处。因此，他们的故事常常让人困惑且难以理解。信息的组织和监控是执行控制的功能。因此，观察到的ADHD儿童叙事表达方面的缺陷可能反映了执行过程中潜在的缺陷。
