ArticleExperimental brain research2017
Finger tapping and pre-attentive sensorimotor timing in adults with ADHD.
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- Visuomotor tracking strategies in children: associations with neurodevelopmental symptoms.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- The ability to maintain rhythm is predictive of ADHD diagnosis and profile.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Misjudgement of One's Own Performance? Exploring Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (ADHD) and Individual Difference in Complex Music and Foreign Language Perception.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Synchrony to a beat predicts synchrony with other minds.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Musical Performance in Adolescents with ADHD, ADD and Dyslexia-Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Manual dexterity and strength and in young adults with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Neuroscience letters · 2022Article
- Processing rhythm in speech and music: Shared mechanisms and implications for developmental speech and language disorders.Neuropsychology · 2021Review
- Medial prefrontal cortex and the temporal control of action.International review of neurobiology · 2021Review
- Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2020Review
- Behavioral rhythm and EEG rhythm to determine timing deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Lineage- and Sex-Dependent Behavioral and Biochemical Transgenerational Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Lead, Prenatal Stress, and Combined Lead and Prenatal Stress in Mice.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Article
- Lowered Rhythm Tapping Ability in Patients With Constructional Apraxia After Stroke.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Timing Deficits in ADHD: Insights From the Neuroscience of Musical Rhythm.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Sensorimotor timing deficits are considered central to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the tasks establishing timing impairments often involve interconnected processes, including low-level sensorimotor timing and higher level executive processes such as attention. Thus, the source of timing deficits in ADHD remains unclear. Low-level sensorimotor timing can be isolated from higher level processes in a finger-tapping task that examines the motor response to unexpected shifts of metronome onsets. In this study, adults with ADHD and ADHD-like symptoms (n = 25) and controls (n = 26) performed two finger-tapping tasks. The first assessed tapping variability in a standard tapping task (metronome-paced and unpaced). In the other task, participants tapped along with a metronome that contained unexpected shifts (±15, 50 ms); the timing adjustment on the tap following the shift captures pre-attentive sensorimotor timing (i.e., phase correction) and thus should be free of potential higher order confounds (e.g., attention). In the standard tapping task, as expected, the ADHD group had higher timing variability in both paced and unpaced tappings. However, in the pre-attentive task, performance did not differ between the ADHD and control groups. Together, results suggest that low-level sensorimotor timing and phase correction are largely preserved in ADHD and that some timing impairments observed in ADHD may stem from higher level factors (such as sustained attention).
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