Keywords
ADHD, working memory, attention
Abstract
Inattentive behavior is considered a core and pervasive feature of ADHD; however, an alternative model challenges this premise and hypothesizes a functional relationship between working memory and inattentive behavior. The current study investigated whether inattentive behavior in children with ADHD is functionally related to domain-general central executive and/or subsidiary storage/rehearsal components of working memory. Objective observations of children's attentive behavior by independent observers were conducted while children with ADHD (n=15) and typically developing children (n=14) completed 10 counterbalanced tasks that differentially manipulated central executive, phonological storage/rehearsal, and visuospatial storage/rehearsal demands. Results of latent variable and effect size confidence interval analyses revealed two conditions that completely accounted for the attentive behavior deficits in children with ADHD: (a) placing demands on central executive processing, the effe
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Graduation Date
2009
Advisor
Rapport, Mark
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree Program
Psychology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0002695
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002695
Language
English
Release Date
June 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Kofler, Michael, "Adhd And Working Memory: The Impact Of Central Executive Deficits And Overwhelming Storage/rehearsal Capacity On Observed Inattentive Behavior" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3952.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/3952