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- Title
Multisensory Enhancement of Cognitive Control over Working Memory Capture of Attention in Children with ADHD.
- Authors
Cai, Biye; Cai, Shizhong; He, Hua; He, Lu; Chen, Yan; Wang, Aijun
- Abstract
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder in school-age children. Although it has been well documented that children with ADHD are associated with impairment of executive functions including working memory (WM) and inhibitory control, there is not yet a consensus as to the relationship between ADHD and memory-driven attentional capture (i.e., representations in WM bias attention toward the WM-matched distractors). The present study herein examined whether children with ADHD have sufficient cognitive control to modulate memory-driven attentional capture. 73 school-age children (36 with ADHD and 37 matched typically developing (TD) children) were instructed to perform a visual search task while actively maintaining an item in WM. In such a paradigm, the modality and the validity of the memory sample were manipulated. The results showed that under the visual WM encoding condition, no memory-driven attentional capture was observed in TD children, but significant capture was found in children with ADHD. In addition, under the audiovisual WM encoding condition, memory-matched distractors did not capture the attention of both groups. The results indicate a deficit of cognitive control over memory-driven attentional capture in children with ADHD, which can be improved by multisensory WM encoding. These findings enrich the relationship between ADHD and cognitive control and provide new insight into the influence of cross-modal processing on attentional guidance.
- Subjects
VISUAL memory; CONTROL (Psychology); COGNITIVE ability; SHORT-term memory; EXECUTIVE function; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Publication
Brain Sciences (2076-3425), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
2076-3425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/brainsci13010066