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Salo, Ruth; Gabay, Shai; Fassbender, Catherine; Henik, Avishai – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Objective: The goal of the present study was to examine distributed attentional functions in long-term but currently abstinent methamphetamine (MA) abusers using a task that measures attentional alertness, orienting, and conflict resolution. Methods: Thirty currently abstinent MA abusers (1 month-5 years) and 22 healthy non-substance using adults…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Conflict Resolution, Drug Abuse, Comparative Analysis
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Breier, Joshua I.; Gray, Lincoln; Fletcher, Jack M.; Diehl, Randy L.; Klass, Patricia; Foorman, Barbara R.; Molis, Michelle R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Assessed perception of phonemic contrast based on voice onset time (VOT) and a nonspeech analog of VOT contrast among children and adolescents with reading disability (RD), ADHD, RD and AHDH, or no impairment. Found that RD children had difficulty processing speech and nonspeech stimuli containing similar auditory temporal cues. Phoneme perception…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Perception, Children
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Gomez, Rapson; Condon, Margaret – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
A study examined central auditory processing ability of 15 children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 15 children with ADHD and learning disabilities (LD), and 15 controls. Results indicated lower central-auditory-processing ability and significant correlations between reading and ADHD and reading and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Perception, Children, Cognitive Processes
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Sutcliffe, Paul A.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Houghton, Stephen; Taylor, Myra – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Debate continues over the hypothesis that children with language or literacy difficulties have a genuine auditory processing deficit. Several recent studies have reported deficits in frequency discrimination (FD), but it is unclear whether these are genuine perceptual impairments or reflective of the comorbid attentional problems that exist in…
Descriptors: Stimulants, Auditory Discrimination, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity