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Decision-making patterns and sensitivity to reward and punishment in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Masunami, Taiji, Okazaki, Shinji, Maekawa, Hisao·2009·International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Earlier studies have demonstrated that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with aberrant sensitivity to rewards and punishments. Although some studies have focused on real-life decision making in children with ADHD using the Iowa gambling task, the number of good deck choices, a frequently used index of decision-making ability in the gambling task, is insufficient for investigating the complex decision-making strategies in subjects. In the present study, we investigated decision-making strategies in ADHD children, analyzing T-patterns with rewards, with punishments, and without rewards and punishments during the gambling task, and examined the relationship between decision-making strategies and skin conductance responses (SCRs) to rewards and punishments. We hypothesized that ADHD children and normal children would employ different decision-making strategies depending on their sensitivity to rewards and punishments in the gambling task. Our results revealed that ADHD children had fewer T-patterns with punishments and exhibited a significant tendency to have many T-patterns with rewards, thus supporting our hypothesis. Moreover, in contrast to normal children, ADHD children failed to demonstrate differences between reward and punishment SCRs, supporting the idea that they had an aberrant sensitivity to rewards and punishments. Therefore, we concluded that ADHD children would be impaired in decision-making strategies depending on their aberrant sensitivity to rewards and punishments. However, we were unable to specify whether large reward SCRs or small punishment SCRs is generated in ADHD children.

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Authors
Masunami, T., Okazaki, S., & Maekawa, H.
Affiliations
University of Tsukuba (JP)
Corresponding author
Masunami, Taiji
Venue
International Journal of Psychophysiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-06
Volume
72
Issue
3
Pages
283-288
ISSN
0167-8760 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2048568923
Cited by
63
References
38
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FWCI
2.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) (acceptedVersion)
  • Terrestrial Environment Research Center (University of Tsukuba) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
Keywords
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, decision strategies, reward sensitivity, punishment sensitivity, Iowa Gambling Task, skin conductance response, children, T-patterns, emotional valence
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child, Decision Making, Female, Games, Experimental, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Punishment, Reward, Feedback, Psychological

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