Increased Sensitivity to Perceptual Interference in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Increased sensitivity to perceptual interference in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Difficulty with selective attention is a frequent complaint of adult patients with ADHD, but selective attention tasks have not provided robust evidence of attentional dysfunction in this group. Two experiments examine this puzzle by distinguishing between failures of spatial selection and problems due to sensitivity to perceptual interference. In Experiment 1, we measured the level of perceptu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1355-6177,1469-7661
DOI: 10.1017/s1355617712000033