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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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2025
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. It affects approximately 5-8% of children globally, with around 60-70% of cases persisting into adulthood. ADHD has significant implications for educational attainment, social interactions, and occupational success. Diagnostic Criteria and Symptoms To diagnose ADHD, symptoms must manifest before age 12 and be evident across multiple settings.
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Measurement of Neurophysiological Signals of Ignoring and Attending Processes in Attention Control
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2015
Attention control comprises enhancement of target signals and attenuation of distractor signals. We describe an approach to measure separately but concurrently, the neurophysiology of attending and ignoring in sustained intermodal attention, utilizing a passive control condition during which neither process is continuously engaged.
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The Attentional Blink
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In order for recognition of a certain stimulus to take place, visual attention needs to be directed towards said stimulus. To the earliest parts of the visual system, objects are not objects, they are collections of visual features-lines, corners, changes in texture, color, and light. Attention is the resource that is necessary for later processing in order to recognize what a given bundle of features adds up to. This makes...
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The Adventures of Fundi Intervention Based on the Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Patients
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2020
This protocol illustrates a remedial therapy based on inductive learning and indirect communication (Ericksonian metaphorical hypnosis) that can be applied to children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Particularly, this protocol is intended to test the effectiveness of a go/no-go decision task. Neuroscientific rationale is presented throughout the text.
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Visual Attention: fMRI Investigation of Object-based Attentional Control
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel— University of Southern California The human visual system is incredibly sophisticated and capable of processing large amounts of information very quickly. However, the brain's capacity to process information is not an unlimited resource. Attention, the ability to selectively process information that is relevant to current goals and to ignore information that is not, is therefore an essential part of visual perception. Some aspects of...
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Rather than treating attention as a single capacity, researchers examine how attentional control operates alongside executive function, motivation, and task demands. This approach asks whether performance changes because a person struggles to sustain focus, select relevant information, direct attention, or respond to the structure of a task. These distinctions connect observable behavior with more specific cognitive mechanisms.
Behavioral tasks provide observable performance measures for testing attentional processes under defined conditions. Experimental comparisons allow investigators to examine how performance differs across task demands or groups, while clinical assessments add information about symptoms in applied settings. Together, these sources can indicate whether an apparent attention problem remains consistent across contexts or changes with experimental conditions.
Performance may depend partly on how a task requires attention to be sustained, selected, or redirected. Attention deficit research therefore considers environmental and task conditions alongside individual cognitive factors, including motivation and executive function. Examining these interactions helps explain why attention-related difficulties may appear differently across settings and supports more precise interpretation of observed behavior.
A comprehensive investigation can connect behavioral task performance, clinical assessment findings, and experimental comparisons rather than relying on one source alone. Behavioral measures show what a person does under specified conditions, clinical assessments describe attention-related symptoms, and comparisons test patterns across conditions or groups. Combining these forms of evidence strengthens interpretation and links psychological theory with applied assessment.
In psychology, attention deficit research helps relate observable patterns of sustaining, selecting, or directing attention to symptoms associated with ADHD. It does not treat every performance difference as identical; instead, the framework considers executive function, motivation, and task demands when interpreting findings. This supports more precise assessment and can guide the design of interventions or accommodations.
Findings can contribute to assessment, intervention design, and educational or workplace accommodations. Researchers can also use changes in measured performance and clinical assessment information to evaluate treatment outcomes. At a broader level, linking behavior with underlying mechanisms helps refine scientific models of cognition, making the work relevant both to psychological theory and to decisions in applied settings.