Ming-Tao Yang, Chun-Hsien Hsu, Pei-Wen Yeh, Wang-Tso Lee, Jao-Shwann Liang, Wen-Mei Fu, Chia-Ying Lee
Inattention (IA) has been a major problem in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), accounting for their behavioral and cognitive dysfunctions. However, there are at least three processing steps underlying attentional control for auditory change detection, namely pre-attentive change detection, involuntary attention orienting, and attention reorienting for further evaluation. This study aimed to examine whether children with ADHD would show deficits in any of these subcomponents by using mismatch negativity (MMN), P3a, and late discriminative negativity (LDN) as event-related potential (ERP) markers, under the passive auditory oddball paradigm...
2015: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience