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ArticleBiological psychiatry global open science2026

Selective Attention Dynamics in Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Role for Sensory Processing Asymmetry?

Nicolas Zink, Samantha O'Connell, Samantha Betts, Sean Noah, Austin Hilberg, Jim McCracken, Rory Reid, Susan Bookheimer, Mark S Cohen, Stanley A Klein and 3 more

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Article in Biological psychiatry global open science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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13 authors.

Nicolas ZinkDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Samantha O'ConnellDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Samantha BettsGraduate Program in Neurosciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Sean NoahDepartment of Neuroscience, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Austin HilbergDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Jim McCrackenDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Rory ReidDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Susan BookheimerDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Mark S CohenDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neurology, Radiology, Biomedical Physics, Psychology, Bioengineering and California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Stanley A KleinSchool of Optometry and Vision Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Mercedes T OlivaDivision of Social Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.
Greg V SimpsonThink Now, Inc., San Francisco, California.
Agatha LenartowiczDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Despite persisting symptomatology in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it remains elusive whether ADHD-related impairments of selective attention are domain general or specific, whether this inattention is related to earlier stimulus encoding or later stimulus-response mappings, and whether it manifests differently in ADHD presentations. Methods: Using an intermodal selective attention task, we investigated whether and when selective attention processes across competing modalities (auditory and visual) differ in adults with inattentive ( Results: Compared with controls, task performance was lower in individuals with ADHD. In both modalities, effects of attending versus ignoring were found in early (<200 ms) and late (>300 ms) processes. During the visual task, staircase-like ADHD presentation differences were found around the N2 when attending to visual and around the P3 when ignoring auditory stimuli. During the auditory task, late-processing ERPs were unaffected by ADHD. Instead, ADHD differences in sustained attention processes were observed across attended and ignored stimuli during early sensory processing (P1). Conclusions: Our data indicate that ADHD-related selective attention impairments persist into adulthood and are context dependent (dominant during visual attention) and accompanied by altered sustained attention. In the combined presentation, postsensory attention processes were more severely affected. The presence of an asymmetric selective attention impairment that favors auditory over visual attention does not support global selective attention deficits in adult ADHD. A discussion of clinical implications with real-life examples is provided.

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PMCPMC13090990

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