作者: Ephraim S Grossman , Yaakov SG Hoffman , Itai Berger , Ari Z Zivotofsky , None
DOI: 10.1037/NEU0000189
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摘要: OBJECTIVE: Adults diagnosed with attentional deficit disorder (ADHD) are easily distracted in many tasks. Yet ADHD performance on inattentional blindness (IB) tasks has not been examined. Such investigation may aid discriminating between 3 models: the neurological model, perceptual load theory, and "hunter versus farmer" hypothesis. METHOD: Distractibility was assessed non-ADHD college students using MOXO task that involves detection of a single attended stimulus repeatedly appears same place well-known IB "gorilla" video which tracking moving at fast pace dynamic, complex manner. RESULTS: showed increased distractibility task. By contrast, they performed better than controls channel task, while were also noticing unattended stimuli thus exhibiting little-to-no blindness. CONCLUSIONS: As no tradeoffs evident it results most consistent hypothesis, postulates individuals have an alternative cognitive style is less equipped to deal repeated comprising advantages dynamic (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved). Language: en