Impaired reflexive orienting to social cues in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Marotta, A., Casagrande, M., Rosa, C., Maccari, L., Berloco, B., & Pasini, A. (2014). Impaired reflexive orienting to social cues in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 23, 649-657.
Résumé
The present study investigated whether another
person’s social attention, specifically the direction of their eye
gaze, and non-social directional cues triggered reflexive orienting
in individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) and age-matched controls. A choice reaction
time and a detection tasks were used in which eye gaze,
arrow and peripheral cues correctly (congruent) or incorrectly
(incongruent) signalled target location. Independently of the
type of the task, differences between groups were specific to
the cue condition. Typically developing individuals shifted
attention to the location cued by both social and non-social
cues, whereas ADHD group showed evidence of reflexive
orienting only to locations previously cued by non-social
stimuli (arrow and peripheral cues) but failed to show such
orienting effect in response to social eye gaze cues. The
absence of reflexive orienting effect for eye gaze cues observed
in the participants with ADHD may reflect an attentional
impairment in responding to socially relevant information.