Children with ADHD symptoms are less susceptible to gap-filling errors than typically developing children

Enhanced semantic processing is associated with increased false recognition of items consistent with studied material, suggesting that children with poor semantic skills could produce fewer false memories. We examined whether memory errors differed in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Di...

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Published inLearning and individual differences Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 896 - 900
Main Authors Mirandola, C., Paparella, G., Re, A.M., Ghetti, S., Cornoldi, C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.12.2012
Elsevier
Subjects
ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Children
Confidence ratings
Control Groups
Correlation
Error Patterns
False memories
Language Processing
Photography
Recognition (Psychology)
Script
Semantics
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Tests
Script
ADHD
False memories
Confidence ratings
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Summary:Enhanced semantic processing is associated with increased false recognition of items consistent with studied material, suggesting that children with poor semantic skills could produce fewer false memories. We examined whether memory errors differed in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and controls. Children viewed 18 photographs for each of 4 scripts (e.g., eating at a restaurant). A recognition test followed which included old and new photographs, some of which presenting script consistent information and others depicting the cause (e.g., knocking over a glass of coke) of an effect actually viewed during encoding (wiping the table at the restaurant). Children with ADHD exhibited lower false recognition for script-consistent photographs and were more confident in their errors than controls.
ISSN:1041-6080
1873-3425
DOI:10.1016/j.lindif.2012.05.008