ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2018
Overlapping and Distinct Cognitive Impairments in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity and Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability.
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- Smoking cessation interventions in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD).The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Slower Processing Speed in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analytic Investigation of Time-Based Tasks.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Do ASD and ADHD Have Distinct Executive Function Deficits? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Direct Comparison Studies.Journal of attention disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Click-evoked auditory brainstem responses and autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analytic investigation of disorder specificity.Pediatric research · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of psychological techniques in dental management for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic literature review.BMC oral health · 2022Pooled it
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- Autistic traits relate to speed/accuracy trade-off but not statistical learning and updating.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Children and Adolescents with Co-Occurring Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Multimodal Interventions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Neurophysiology of Perceptual Decision-Making and Its Alterations in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Slow but Steady: Similarities and Differences in Executive Functioning Between Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Psychometrics of drift-diffusion model parameters derived from the Eriksen flanker task: Reliability and validity in two independent samples.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Non-decision time: The Higgs Boson of decision.Psychological review · 2025Article
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Abstract
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are commonly comorbid, share genetic liability, and often exhibit overlapping cognitive impairments. Clarification of shared and distinct cognitive effects while considering comorbid symptoms across disorders has been lacking. In the current study, children ages 7-15 years assigned to three diagnostic groups:ADHD (n = 509), ASD (n = 97), and controls (n = 301) completed measures spanning the cognitive domains of attention/arousal, working memory, set-shifting, inhibition, and response variability. Specific processes contributing to response variability were examined using a drift diffusion model, which separately quantified drift rate (i.e., efficiency of information processing), boundary separation (i.e., speed-accuracy trade-offs), and non-decision time. Children with ADHD and ASD were impaired on attention/arousal, processing speed, working memory, and response inhibition, but did not differ from controls on measures of delayed reward discounting, set-shifting, or interference control. Overall, impairments in the ASD group were not attributable to ADHD symptoms using either continuous symptom measures or latent categorical grouping approaches. Similarly, impairments in the ADHD group were not attributable to ASD symptoms. When specific RT parameters were considered, children with ADHD and ASD shared impairments in drift rate. However, children with ASD were uniquely characterized by a wider boundary separation. Findings suggest a combination of overlapping and unique patterns of cognitive impairment for children with ASD as compared to those with ADHD, particularly when the processes underlying reaction time measures are considered separately.
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