ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2018
When attention is intact in adults with ADHD.
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- Transdiagnostic eye-tracking biomarkers of inattention across psychiatric disorders: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Transcranial direct current stimulation in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analysis of neuropsychological deficits.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- Goal management training improves executive control in adults with ADHD: an open trial employing attention network theory to examine effects on attention.BMC psychology · 2022Trial
- Covert spatial attention is uniform across cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Saccade direction modulates the temporal dynamics of presaccadic attention.Journal of vision · 2025Article
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- Visual field asymmetries develop throughout adolescence.iScience · 2025Article
- Asymmetries in Foveal Vision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Biomarkers and Neuropsychological Tools in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: From Subjectivity to Precision Diagnosis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Exogenous Spatial Attention Helps Overcome Spatial Specificity of Visual Learning in the Blind Field After V1 Damage.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2025Article
- Opposite asymmetry in visual perception of humans and macaques.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Asymmetries in foveal vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Building a cumulative science of memory development.Developmental review : DR · 2024Article
- Polar angle asymmetries in visual perception and neural architecture.Trends in neurosciences · 2023Review
- Microsaccades and temporal attention at different locations of the visual field.Journal of vision · 2023Article
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- Presaccadic attention sharpens visual acuity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Distractibility and impulsivity neural states are distinct from selective attention and modulate the implementation of spatial attention.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Is covert visuospatial attention-selective processing of information in the absence of eye movements-preserved in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? Previous findings are inconclusive due to inconsistent terminology and suboptimal methodology. To settle this question, we used well-established spatial cueing protocols to investigate the perceptual effects of voluntary and involuntary attention on an orientation discrimination task for a group of adults with ADHD and their neurotypical age-matched and gender-matched controls. In both groups, voluntary attention significantly improved accuracy and decreased reaction times at the relevant location, but impaired accuracy and slowed reaction times at irrelevant locations, relative to a distributed attention condition. Likewise, involuntary attention improved accuracy and speeded responses. Critically, the magnitudes of all these orienting and reorienting attention effects were indistinguishable between groups. Thus, these counterintuitive findings indicate that spatial covert attention remains functionally intact in adults with ADHD.
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