Sustained and selective attention in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
- Vol. 23 (1) , 69-77
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp2301_9
Abstract
Attempted to claim the nature of the sustained and selective attention deficits implicated in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Specifically, performance on the Continuous Performance Test (CPT; Sergeant & van der Meere, 1990) and speeded classification task was assessed for a group of7- to 12-year-old ADHD boys and their same-aged normal peers. Results of the CPT indicated that both perceptual sensitivity and omission errors increased over time for the ADHD boys to a greater degree than for the control boys, findings indicative of a sustained (attention deficit. Results of the speeded classification task indicated that ADHD children's performance was not as efficient as normal children. However, there was no evidence for a selective attention deficit. Findings are discussed in terns of a process-energy model of attention.Keywords
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