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Visual delayed memory in ADHD children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

S. Kiselev*
Affiliation:
Ural Federal University, Clinical Psychology, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Abstract

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It was shown that children with ADHD have deficit in cognitive abilities. Particularly, in our previous research we have revealed that children with ADHD have weakness have deficit in memory for faces and for names in delayed recall condition.

The goal of this research was to examine the hypothesis that children with ADHD have weakness in visual memory in delayed recall condition.

The experimental group included 19 children with ADHD at age 6–7 years. The control group included 19 typically developing children. The children from experimental and control group were matched for IQ, gender and age.

Children from both groups were assessed with visual memory subtest from Luria's neuropsychological assessment battery. This subtest is designed to assess the ability to perform the visual memory for objects in immediate and delayed conditions. Two-way ANOVA was used to reveal group differences in reproducing the objects in two conditions.

We have not revealed significant differences between children from experimental and control group in the reproducing the objects in immediate condition. However, the interaction of condition type and group was significant (P ≤ 0.05). ADHD children were less successful in reproducing the objects in delayed condition.

In view of the obtained results, it can be assumed that children with ADHD have specific deficit in memory domain – weakness in delayed memory.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: child and adolescent psychiatry
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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