ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
Visual search in ADHD, ASD and ASD + ADHD: overlapping or dissociating disorders?
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- The unique cognitive phenotype of ASD + ADHD co-occurrence: evidence for planning and attention deficits as a differentiating approach.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Digitally Diagnosing Multiple Developmental Delays Using Crowdsourcing Fused With Machine Learning: Protocol for a Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Visual search and childhood vision impairment: A GAMLSS-oriented multiverse analysis approach.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Eye-movement indices of arousal predict ADHD and comorbid externalizing symptoms over a 2-year period.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- SoftMatch: Comparing Scanpaths Using Combinatorial Spatio-Temporal Sequences with Fractal Curves.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Visual search in neurodevelopmental disorders: evidence towards a continuum of impairment.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Intra-Subject Variability in Mathematical Learning Difficulties.Journal of cognition · 2022Article
- Diagnostic overlap and exploration of risk factors in child psychiatry.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Recent debates in the literature discuss commonalities between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at multiple levels of putative causal networks. This debate requires systematic comparisons between these disorders that have been studied in isolation in the past, employing potential markers of each disorder to be investigated in tandem. The present study, choose superior local processing, typical to ASD, and increased Intra-Subject Variability (ISV), typical to ADHD, for a head-to-head comparison of the two disorders, while also considering the comorbid cases. It directly examined groups of participants aged 10-13 years with ADHD, ASD with (ASD+) or without (ASD-) comorbid ADHD and a typically developing (TD) group (total N = 85). A visual search task consisting of an array of paired words was designed. The participants needed to find the specific pair of words, where the first word in the pair was the cue word. This visual search task was selected to compare these groups on overall search performance and trial-to-trial variability of search performance (i.e., ISV). Additionally, scanpath analysis was also carried out using Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) and the Multi-Match Model. Results show that only the ASD- group exhibited superior search performance; whereas, only the groups with ADHD symptoms showed increased ISV. These findings point towards a double dissociation between ASD and ADHD, and argue against an overlap between ASD and ADHD.
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