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Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced distractibility in ADHD children

Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Escera, C., Hämäläinen, M., Huotilainen, M., Häyrinen, T., Oksanen, H., Näätänen, R. +2 more·2005·Neuroscience Letters
DOI 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.081
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Abnormal involuntary attention leading to enhanced distractibility may account for different behavioral and cognitive problems in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This was investigated in the present experiment by recording event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to distracting novel sounds during performance of a visual discrimination task. The overall performance in the visual task was less accurate in the ADHD children than in the control children, and the ADHD children had a higher number of omitted responses following novel sounds. In both groups, the distracting novel sounds elicited a biphasic P3a ERP component and a subsequent frontal Late Negativity (LN). The early phase of P3a (180-240 ms) had significantly smaller amplitudes over the fronto-central left-hemisphere recording sites in the ADHD children than in the control group presumably due to an overlapping enhanced left-hemisphere dominant negative ERP component elicited in the ADHD group. Moreover, the late phase of P3a (300-350 ms) was significantly larger over the left parietal scalp areas in the ADHD children than in the controls. The LN had a smaller amplitude and shorter latency over the frontal scalp in the ADHD group than in the controls. In conclusion, the ERP and behavioral effects caused by the novel sounds reveal deficient control of involuntary attention in ADHD children that may underlie their abnormal distractibility.

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  • Diminished neural responses in children with ADHD are consistent with previous literature reporting impairment in attentional predictive error and increased switching costs to unexpected events.

    “Diminished neural responses in children with ADHD are consistent with previous literature reporting impairment in attentional predictive error (Barry et al., 2003; Senderecka et al., 2012) and increased switching costs to unexpected events (Gumenyuk et al., 2005).”

    From Predictive coding in neuropsychiatric disorders: a systematic transdiagnostic review. (2025) · cites this paper as Gumenyuk et al., 2005

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Authors
Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Escera, C., Hämäläinen, M., Huotilainen, M., Häyrinen, T., Oksanen, H., Näätänen, R., von Wendt, L., & Alho, K.
Affiliations
  • University of Helsinki (FI)
  • Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
  • Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
Corresponding author
Gumenyuk, V.
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Venue
Neuroscience Letters
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-02
Volume
374
Issue
3
Pages
212-217
ISSN
0304-3940 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.081
OpenAlex
W2094958327
Cited by
148
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 5
FWCI
1.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Neuroscience Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Academy of Finland
  • Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
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, distractibility, involuntary attention, event-related potentials, P3a, late negativity, visual discrimination task, left hemisphere dominance, children
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Analysis of Variance, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Auditory Perception, Brain Mapping, Child, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Reaction Time, Sound, Visual Perception, Case-Control Studies

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