Panagiotidi, M 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0189-5873, Overton, PG and Stafford, T
2017,
'Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder-like traits and distractibility in the visual periphery'
, Perception, 46 (6)
, pp. 665-678.
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Abstract
We examined the performance of non-clinical subjects with high and low levels of self-reported ADHD-like traits in a novel distractibility paradigm with far peripheral visual distractors, the likely origin of many distractors in everyday life. Subjects were tested on a Sustained Attention to Response Task with distractors appearing before some of the target/non-target stimuli. When the distractors appeared 80 ms before the targets/non-targets, participants with high levels of ADHD-like traits were less affected in their reaction times than those with lower levels. Reducing the distractor-target/non-target interval to 10 ms removed the reaction time advantage for the high group. We suggest that at 80 ms the distractors were cueing the arrival of the target/non-target and that those with high levels of ADHD-like traits were more sensitive to the cues. Increased sensitivity to stimuli in the visual periphery is consistent with hyper-responsiveness at the level of the superior colliculus.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Health and Society |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Perception |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| ISSN: | 0301-0066 |
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| Depositing User: | M Panagiotidi |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2018 13:18 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2019 10:30 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/48733 |
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