A Pilot Study of Behavioral, Physiological, and Subjective Responses to Varying Mental Effort Requirements in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

A Pilot Study of Behavioral, Physiological, and Subjective Responses to Varying Mental Effort Requirements in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is presumed to involve mental effort application difficulties. To test this assumption, we manipulated task difficulty and measured behavioral, as well as subjective and psychophysiological indices of effort.Methods: Fifteen adolescent ADHD...

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Main Authors: Gabry W. Mies, Pieter Moors, Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke, Saskia van der Oord, Jan R. Wiersema, Anouk Scheres, Jurgen Lemiere, Marina Danckaerts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
mental effort
pupil dilation
working memory
N-back task
effort discounting
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02769/full

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