Change Blindness in Children With ADHD: A Selective Impairment in Visual Search?

Conclusion: In contrast to more standard visual search tasks, flicker tasks seem to be more sensitive to highlight focused attention deficits in children diagnosed with ADHD. Concretely, ADHD attentional deficits were more apparent when the task involved serial top-down strategies.

Source: Journal of Attention Disorders - September 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Maccari, L., Casagrande, M., Martella, D., Anolfo, M., Rosa, C., Fuentes, L. J., Pasini, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research