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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

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  • Inhibition is a critical neurocognitive function often impaired in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  • The stop-signal task is a primary method for assessing inhibitory control, revealing slower responses on 'go' trials when 'stop' trials are intermittently present.
  • The reasons for this slowing—whether strategic adjustment or disrupted processing—remain debated, particularly in ADHD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the underlying mechanisms of stop-signal-induced response slowing in children with and without ADHD.
  • To differentiate between the performance adjustment and dual-task hypotheses in the context of ADHD and inhibitory control.

Main Methods:

  • A carefully controlled experimental design comparing a stop-signal task with a control task lacking 'stop' trials.
  • Inclusion of children aged 8-13, with (n=81) and without ADHD (n=63).
  • Application of drift-diffusion modeling and Bayesian repeated-measures ANOVAs to analyze response strategies and processing speeds.

Main Results:

  • Children adopted more cautious response strategies when inhibition demands were present, supporting the performance adjustment hypothesis.
  • No significant changes in overall processing speed or encoding/motor speed were observed due to inhibition demands.
  • Both children with and without ADHD exhibited equivalent effects of intermittent 'stop' trials on their response strategies.

Conclusions:

  • The findings suggest that children with ADHD possess intact self-regulation and performance monitoring capabilities when adapting to increased inhibitory demands.
  • The observed slowing on 'go' trials is primarily a strategic adjustment, not a deficit in fundamental processing speed.
  • These results have implications for refining cognitive and self-regulatory theories of ADHD and identifying ADHD-related mechanisms.