OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of preresponse cues on behavioral control in adults with ADHD. METHOD: Eighty-eight adults with ADHD and 67 adults with no history of ADHD completed a cued go/no-go task. This task requires participants to respond or inhibit a response to go and no-go targets, respectively, and preresponse cues provide participants with predictive information about the upcoming target. RESULTS: Overall, participants with ADHD made more inhibitory failures and responded more slowly than controls. These group differences were only present in the valid-cue condition, and there were no significant group differences in the invalid-cue conditions. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that adults with ADHD are less able to utilize predictive environmental information to facilitate behavioral control.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of preresponse cues on behavioral control in adults with ADHD. METHOD: Eighty-eight adults with ADHD and 67 adults with no history of ADHD completed a cued go/no-go task. This task requires participants to respond or inhibit a response to go and no-go targets, respectively, and preresponse cues provide participants with predictive information about the upcoming target. RESULTS: Overall, participants with ADHD made more inhibitory failures and responded more slowly than controls. These group differences were only present in the valid-cue condition, and there were no significant group differences in the invalid-cue conditions. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that adults with ADHD are less able to utilize predictive environmental information to facilitate behavioral control.
Authors: Sarah K Mesrobian; Alessandro E P Villa; Michel Bader; Lorenz Götte; Alessandra Lintas Journal: Front Hum Neurosci Date: 2018-02-27 Impact factor: 3.169