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Attentional deficit disorder (ADD, ADHD) is a complex disorder in which attention and working memory (WM) are impaired. The central hypothesis is that WM behavioral performance would be impaired in ADD and would facilitate the classification of control and ADD subjects. One hundred and eighty-one control and 41 ADD children and adolescents (6–17 years old) were behaviorally recorded using the Working Memory Test Battery for Children (WMTB-C), delayed match-to-sample test (DMTS), and oddball tasks. ADD children presented a behavioral impairment in WMTB-C, DMTS, and oddball tasks. ADD obtained lower direct scores in the three subcomponents of the Baddeley’s WM model, lower d’ values, produced more errors, and presented higher variability in RTs than controls. The discriminant analysis was able to classify correctly around 70% of controls and ADD children. The results suggest that WM is a central core dysfunction in ADD and useful as a diagnostic tool.
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This work was supported by grants of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [grant numbers PSI2013-47506-R and PSI2016-80059-R] and by a research grant from Janssen-Cilag.
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Rodríguez-Martínez, E.I. et al. (2018). Working Memory Development in Attention Deficit Children and Adolescents. In: Delgado-García, J., Pan, X., Sánchez-Campusano, R., Wang, R. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (VI). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8854-4_35
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