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  • Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Attentional failures impact daily tasks and are a diagnostic criterion for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  • The concept of an 'attention-distractibility trait' in the general population remains under-explored.

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  • To investigate if an attention-distractibility trait exists in healthy individuals.
  • To examine the relationship between ADHD symptoms and susceptibility to distraction in a non-clinical sample.

Main Methods:

  • Administered an ADHD diagnostic tool to healthy participants.
  • Assessed participants' reaction times in letter-search and name-classification tasks with varying distractor types (irrelevant vs. relevant).
  • Manipulated perceptual load during tasks to observe its effect on distraction.

Main Results:

  • ADHD symptom scores positively correlated with interference from irrelevant distractors (e.g., cartoon images).
  • Distraction effects were significant for irrelevant but not relevant distractors.
  • Increased perceptual load during tasks eliminated distraction, regardless of ADHD symptom scores.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the existence of an attention-distractibility trait, indicating vulnerability to irrelevant stimuli.
  • The trait's impact can be mitigated by increasing the perceptual demands of a task.
  • This suggests potential strategies for managing distractibility in everyday situations.