What part of working memory is not working in ADHD? short-term memory, the central executive and effects of reinforcement

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 901-917

  Dovis, Sebastiaan ^a   Van Der Oord, Saskia ^a,b   Wiers, Reinout W ^a   Prins, Pier J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ADHD; Central executive; Motivation; Reinforcement; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880272837     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-013-9729-9     Document Type: Article

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