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Attention deficits revealed by passive auditory change detection for pure tones and lexical tones in ADHD children

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Title
Attention deficits revealed by passive auditory change detection for pure tones and lexical tones in ADHD children
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2015
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00470
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Ming-Tao Yang, Chun-Hsien Hsu, Pei-Wen Yeh, Wang-Tso Lee, Jao-Shwann Liang, Wen-Mei Fu, Chia-Ying Lee

Abstract

Inattention (IA) has been a major problem in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), accounting for their behavioral and cognitive dysfunctions. However, there are at least three processing steps underlying attentional control for auditory change detection, namely pre-attentive change detection, involuntary attention orienting, and attention reorienting for further evaluation. This study aimed to examine whether children with ADHD would show deficits in any of these subcomponents by using mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a, and late discriminative negativity (LDN) as event-related potential (ERP) markers, under the passive auditory oddball paradigm. Two types of stimuli-pure tones and Mandarin lexical tones-were used to examine if the deficits were general across linguistic and non-linguistic domains. Participants included 15 native Mandarin-speaking children with ADHD and 16 age-matched controls (across groups, age ranged between 6 and 15 years). Two passive auditory oddball paradigms (lexical tones and pure tones) were applied. The pure tone oddball paradigm included a standard stimulus (1000 Hz, 80%) and two deviant stimuli (1015 and 1090 Hz, 10% each). The Mandarin lexical tone oddball paradigm's standard stimulus was /yi3/ (80%) and two deviant stimuli were /yi1/ and /yi2/ (10% each). The results showed no MMN difference, but did show attenuated P3a and enhanced LDN to the large deviants for both pure and lexical tone changes in the ADHD group. Correlation analysis showed that children with higher ADHD tendency, as indexed by parents' and teachers' ratings on ADHD symptoms, showed less positive P3a amplitudes when responding to large lexical tone deviants. Thus, children with ADHD showed impaired auditory change detection for both pure tones and lexical tones in both involuntary attention switching, and attention reorienting for further evaluation. These ERP markers may therefore be used for the evaluation of anti-ADHD drugs that aim to alleviate these dysfunctions.

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Country Count As %
Hong Kong 1 1%
Unknown 75 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 24%
Researcher 11 14%
Student > Master 10 13%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 22 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 20 26%
Neuroscience 8 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 9%
Linguistics 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 26 34%
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