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Learning disability: An inability to sustain attention
Author(s) -
Pihl R. O.,
Niaura Ray
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198207)38:3<632::aid-jclp2270380330>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , learning disability , developmental psychology , interval (graph theory) , function (biology) , cognitive psychology , learning disabled , control (management) , audiology , medicine , artificial intelligence , mathematics , management , combinatorics , evolutionary biology , economics , biology , computer science
Administered a complex reaction time task to 47 learning‐disabled and 41 control children, aged 8 to 10 ½. The preparatory interval between a warning and act light was manipulated for length and regularity. Groups differed only as a function of number of trials. It appears that the inability to sustain attention over time, rather than momentary inattentiveness, distinguished the two groups.