Controlling attention to gaze and arrows in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Marotta, Andrea Pasini, Augusto Menotti, Erica Pasquini, Alessia Pitzianti, Maria Bernarda Casagrande, Maria 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. 2024-01-31T09:01:34Z 2024-01-31T09:01:34Z 2017 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Published version: Marotta, A., Pasini, A., Menotti, E., Pasquini, A., Pitzianti, M. B., & Casagrande, M. (2017). Controlling attention to gaze and arrows in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Psychiatry research, 251, 148-154. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87722 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.094 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional