Children with higher ADHD rating-scale scores make longer transitions between consecutively retrieved items in a visual search task¶
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q3 i? In the Bells Test, ADHD score positively and significantly predicted both the mean and the standard deviation of distances between consecutively found targets. → Van den Driessche 2019
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Van den Driessche 2019¶
Van den Driessche, C., Chevrier, F., Cleeremans, A. & Sackur, J. (2019). Lower Attentional Skills predict increased exploratory foraging patterns. Scientific Reports 9:10948. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46761-0
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Observational analysis of search paths from 87 children performing the Bells Test (35 targets, 2 minutes). Mixed models showed "a positive and significant effect of the ADHD score" on mean and SD of inter-target distances; no effect size was printed.
"we found a positive and significant effect of the ADHD score on both the mean (β = 0.026, SD = 0.0096, z = 2.71, p < 0.01) and the standard deviation (β = 0.035, SD = 0.008, z = 4.36, p < 0.0001) of distances"
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Children with higher ADHD rating-scale scores make longer transitions between consecutively retrieved items in a visual search task |
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Children with higher ADHD rating-scale scores make longer transitions between consecutively retrieved items in a visual search task |
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