ArticleJournal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS2021
A New Spin on Spatial Cognition in ADHD: A Diffusion Model Decomposition of Mental Rotation.
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- A two-phase diffusion process account of cross-location conflict processing during mental imagery.iScience · 2026Article
- A diffusion model analysis of task set inertia and task set reconfiguration in ADHD.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2026Article
- Elongated tau in an ex-Gaussian decomposition of vocal articulation speed in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Aligning visual imagery to the operator improves geospatial situation awareness in a single-display 360-degree periscope concept.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Preferential Choice to Exert Cognitive Effort in Children with ADHD: a Diffusion Modelling Account.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Mechanism-based groups of children with ADHD are associated with distinct domains of impairment.Psychiatry research · 2023Article
- Slow drift rate predicts ADHD symptomology over and above executive dysfunction.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesMultiple studies have found evidence of task non-specific slow drift rate in ADHD, and slow drift rate has rapidly become one of the most visible cognitive hallmarks of the disorder. In this study, we use the diffusion model to determine whether atypicalities in visuospatial cognitive processing exist independently of slow drift rate.
methodsEight- to twelve-year-old children with (n = 207) and without ADHD (n = 99) completed a 144-trial mental rotation task.
resultsPerformance of children with ADHD was less accurate and more variable than non-ADHD controls, but there were no group differences in mean response time. Drift rate was slower, but nondecision time was faster for children with ADHD. A Rotation × ADHD interaction for boundary separation was also found in which children with ADHD did not strategically adjust their response thresholds to the same degree as non-ADHD controls. However, the Rotation × ADHD interaction was not significant for nondecision time, which would have been the primary indicator of a specific deficit in mental rotation per se.
conclusionsPoorer performance on the mental rotation task was due to slow rate of evidence accumulation, as well as relative inflexibility in adjusting boundary separation, but not to impaired visuospatial processing specifically. We discuss the implications of these findings for future cognitive research in ADHD.
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