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Tamm, Leanne; Hughes, Carroll; Ames, Laure; Pickering, Joyce; Silver, Cheryl H.; Stavinoha, Peter; Castillo, Christine L.; Rintelmann, Jeanne; Moore, Jarrette; Foxwell, Aleksandra; Bolanos, S. Gina; Hines, Tabatha; Nakonezny, Paul A.; Emslie, Graham – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2010
Objective: The article discusses a feasibility study conducted to examine whether Pay Attention!, an intervention training sustained, selective, alternating, and divided attention, could be utilized in a clinical setting with children diagnosed with ADHD, and whether children who received the intervention made attention and executive functioning…
Descriptors: Intervention, Feasibility Studies, Attention Deficit Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Brocki, Karin C.; Nyberg, Lilianne; Thorell, Lisa B.; Bohlin, Gunilla – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate how three different types of inhibitory control--interference control within task, interference control outside task, and prepotent response inhibition--and two types of working memory--verbal and spatial--would relate to early symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Longitudinal Studies, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Stolzenberg, J. B.; Cherkes-Julkowski, M. – 1991
This study examines executive function and its relationship to attention dysfunction and working memory. It attempts to document the manifestations of executive function problems in school-related extended processing tasks, such as verbal problem-solving in math and reading of extended passages. Subjects (in grades 1-12) included 49 children with…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes, Competence