ArticleVision (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Gaze Dispersion During a Sustained-Fixation Task as a Proxy of Visual Attention in Children with ADHD.
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- Immersive Rehabilitation Therapy (MoveR) Improves Postural and Visuo-Attentional Skills in Children with ADHD: A Clinical Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Identifying an oculomotor phenotype for adolescent depression with an interleaved pro- and anti-saccade task.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
aimThe aim of this preliminary study was to explore the visual attention in children with ADHD using eye-tracking, and to identify a relevant quantitative proxy of their attentional control.
methodsTwenty-two children diagnosed with ADHD (aged 7 to 12 years) and their 24 sex-, age-matched control participants with typical development performed a visual sustained-fixation task using an eye-tracker. Fixation stability was estimated by calculating the bivariate contour ellipse area (BCEA) as a continuous index of gaze dispersion during the task.
resultsChildren with ADHD showed a significantly higher BCEA than control participants (
conclusionsOur results provide preliminary evidence that eye-tracking coupled with BCEA analysis, provides a sensitive and non-invasive tool for quantifying visual attentional resources of children with ADHD. If replicated and extended, the increased use of gaze instability as an indicator of visual attention in children could have a major impact in clinical settings to assist clinicians. This analysis focuses on overall gaze dispersion rather than fine eye micro-movements such as microsaccades.
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