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AUDITORY ATTENTIONAL ABILITIES IN HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Prior Margot,
Sanson Ann,
Freethy Christopher,
Geffen Gina
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1985.tb02267.x
Subject(s) - psychology , dichotic listening , selective attention , developmental psychology , attention deficits , audiology , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , cognition , neuroscience , medicine , management , economics
Abstract— Using dichotic monitoring procedures, various aspects of auditory attention were examined in hyperactive children and matched normal controls. Hyperactive children did not show deficits in the ability to sustain attention, although signal detection analysis showed some lowered capacity in both focused and selective attention to targets. Subsamples of learning‐disabled and neurologically impaired hyperactive children showed minimal impairment of auditory attentional capacities. It was argued that more evidence concerning task and situational effects is needed before it can be claimed that hyperactive children show attention deficits.