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Title
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HYPERACTIVITY IN BOYS WITH ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: A UBIQUITOUS CORE SYMPTOM OR MANIFESTATION OF WORKING MEMORY DEFICITS?.
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Creator
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Bolden, Jennifer, Rapport, Mark, University of Central Florida
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Abstract / Description
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Hyperactivity is currently considered a core and ubiquitous feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, an alternative model challenges this premise and hypothesizes a functional relationship between working memory (WM) and activity level. The current study investigated whether children's activity level is functionally related to WM demands associated with the domain-general central executive and subsidiary storage/rehearsal components using tasks based on...
Show moreHyperactivity is currently considered a core and ubiquitous feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, an alternative model challenges this premise and hypothesizes a functional relationship between working memory (WM) and activity level. The current study investigated whether children's activity level is functionally related to WM demands associated with the domain-general central executive and subsidiary storage/rehearsal components using tasks based on Baddeley's (2007) WM model. Activity level was objectively measured 16 times per second using wrist- and ankle-worn actigraphs while 23 boys between 8 and 12 years of age completed control tasks and visuospatial/phonological WM tasks of increasing memory demands. All children exhibited significantly higher activity rates under all WM relative to control conditions, and children with ADHD (n=12) moved significantly more than typically developing children (n=11) under all conditions. Activity level in all children was associated with central executive but not storage/rehearsal functioning, and higher activity rates exhibited by children with ADHD under control conditions were fully attenuated by removing variance directly related to central executive processes.
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Date Issued
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2008
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Identifier
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CFE0002455, ucf:47702
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002455
