Abstract
Objective: The present study investigated differences in emotional face processing between adolescents (age 15-18) with ADHD-Combined type (ADHD-CT) and typically developing controls. Method: Participants completed a visual emotional task in which they were asked to rate the degree of negativity/positivity of four facial expressions (taken from the NimStim face stimulus set). Results: Participants’ ratings, ratings’ variability, response times (RTs), and RTs’ variability were analyzed. Results showed a significant interaction between group and the type of presented stimuli. Adolescents with ADHD-CT discriminated less between positive and negative emotional expressions compared with those without ADHD. In addition, adolescents with ADHD-CT exhibited greater variability in their RTs and in their ratings of facial expressions when compared with controls. Conclusion: The present results lend further support to the existence of a specific deficit or alteration in the processing of emotional face stimuli among adolescents with ADHD-CT.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1123-1130 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Attention Disorders |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Oct 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2015.
Keywords
- adolescents
- combined-type ADHD
- emotional stimuli processing
- facial expressions
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Clinical Psychology