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- Title
Comparison of Two Measures of Working Memory Impairments in 220 Adolescents and Adults With ADHD.
- Authors
Kennedy, Ryan J.; Quinlan, Donald M.; Brown, Thomas E.
- Abstract
Objective: This study tests the hypotheses that (a) adolescents and adults with ADHD score lower on two normed measures of verbal working memory, relative to their overall verbal abilities, than the general population and (b) a specific story memory test is a more sensitive and relevant measure of working memory impairment than a numerically based test. Method: Scores on normed story memory and numerical memory tests of 220 adolescents and adults with ADHD were corrected for the individual's verbal abilities and compared with each other and national norms. Results: Participants with ADHD scored significantly below their verbal ability measure on both verbal and numerically based memory tests in comparison with national norms. Scores on verbal memory test were lower than scores for numerically based memory tests. Conclusion: This story memory test is a more sensitive measure of working memory impairments in adolescents and adults with ADHD than measures based on recall of numerical data.
- Subjects
ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; SHORT-term memory; MEMORY testing; VERBAL memory; DATA analysis; MEMORY; MEMORY disorders
- Publication
Journal of Attention Disorders, 2019, Vol 23, Issue 14, p1838
- ISSN
1087-0547
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/1087054716661232