Controlling attention to gaze and arrows in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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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.
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This research was supported, in part, by the grant ‘‘Ricerca di Ateneo Federato AST 2007 –prot. C26N15R8JC -‘Sapienza’-Universitá di Roma; Dr. Marotta acknowledges Ministry of Education and Science (Spain) for a “Juan de la Cierva” research contract.Abstract
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.