ArticleScientific reports2020
Using virtual reality to define the mechanisms linking symptoms with cognitive deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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- Measuring neurodevelopment of inhibitory control in children using naturalistic virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Digital assessments for children and adolescents with ADHD: a scoping review.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Current virtual reality-based rehabilitation interventions in neuro-developmental disorders at developmental ages.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Eye movement behavior in a real-world virtual reality task reveals ADHD in children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Quantifying ADHD Symptoms in Open-Ended Everyday Life Contexts With a New Virtual Reality Task.Journal of attention disorders · 2022Article
- Measuring Attentional Distraction in Children With ADHD Using Virtual Reality Technology With Eye-Tracking.Frontiers in virtual reality · 2022Article
- The usefulness of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children: an overview of relevant studies.BMC psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
The mechanisms underpinning attentional deficits are only partially understood. Here we ask if shifts in a child's field of view (FOV) act as a mediator between symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and associated cognitive anomalies, particularly in attentional processes. Real time measurement of shifts in FOV were obtained on 85 children (mean age 9.4 (SD 1.9) years; 45 with DSM 5-defined ADHD) as they completed the continuous performance task in a "virtual classroom". We extracted measures reflecting focused and selective attention across the task, along with diffusion modelling of latent cognitive processes of information uptake, response conservativeness and non-decision time. Mediation analyses showed that shifts in FOV partially mediated the relationship between hyperactive impulsive symptoms and both poor focused attention and information uptake. Performance accuracy decreased and shifts in FOV increased during the task, but these changes over time did not differ by symptom severity. Employing virtual reality and mediation analysis, we implicate shifts in FOV as a mechanism linking symptoms of ADHD and deficits in focused attention and in the gathering of information to make decisions. The identification of mediating mechanisms might provide new targets for intervention.
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