ERP correlates of selective attention and working memory capacities in children with ADHD and/or PDD-NOS

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-72

  Gomarus, H Karin ^a   Wijers, Albertus A ^b   Minderaa, Ruud B ^a   Althaus, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ADHD; Children; ERP; PDD NOS; Selective attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149156377     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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