ArticleScientific reports2017
Children and adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder cannot move to the beat.
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- Effects of Music on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Potential Application in Serious Video Games: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
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- A Proof-of-Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Preadolescents Who Stutter.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- Can you beat the music? Validation of a gamified rhythmic training in children with ADHD.Behavior research methods · 2025Trial
- Voice features in paediatric ADHD: baseline group differences and longitudinal change under methylphenidate.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Atypical auditory cortical processing in ADHD during early and middle childhood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Distinct Rhythmic Competencies Identified via Internet-Based Assessment.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- The Rhythm Reproduction Task for children: A psychometric examination.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- From Finger Taps to Footsteps: Gait as a Model for Investigating and Training Rhythmic Abilities.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- How Familiarity, Musical Affinity, and ADHD Shape Adolescents' Perception of Musical Emotions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Learning impairments in Fmr1Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- Is It About Speech or About Prediction? Testing Between Two Accounts of the Rhythm-Reading Link.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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- Exploring the Intersection of ADHD and Music: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Brain-behavior correlates of rhythmic timing and auditory-motor synchronization in children with developmental coordination disorder: an EEG study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- From Sound to Movement: Mapping the Neural Mechanisms of Auditory-Motor Entrainment and Synchronization.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Auditory rhythm facilitates perception and action in children at risk for developmental coordination disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mobile version of the Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities (BAASTA): Implementation and adult norms.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Unravelling individual rhythmic abilities using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Children and adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) fail in simple tasks like telling whether two sounds have different durations, or in reproducing single durations. The deficit is linked to poor reading, attention, and language skills. Here we demonstrate that these timing distortions emerge also when tracking the beat of rhythmic sounds in perceptual and sensorimotor tasks. This contrasts with the common observation that durations are better perceived and produced when embedded in rhythmic stimuli. Children and adults with ADHD struggled when moving to the beat of rhythmic sounds, and when detecting deviations from the beat. Our findings point to failure in generating an internal beat in ADHD while listening to rhythmic sounds, a function typically associated with the basal ganglia. Rhythm-based interventions aimed at reinstating or compensating this malfunctioning circuitry may be particularly valuable in ADHD, as already shown for other neurodevelopmental disorders, such as dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment.
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