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K Rubia1, J Oosterlaan, J A Sergeant

  • 1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, UK. k.rubia@iop.bpmf.iop.ac

Behavioural Brain Research
|August 26, 1998
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Children with hyperactivity show deficits in inhibitory control, performing poorly on stop tasks regardless of signal timing. Their response processes are also more erratic, confirming stop tasks

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Childhood hyperactivity is linked to deficits in self-regulatory functions.
  • Inhibitory control, a key self-A regulatory function, is often impaired in hyperactive children.
  • The stop task is a common laboratory measure for assessing inhibitory control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate inhibitory control in children with pervasive hyperactivity.
  • To compare hyperactive children's performance on two modified stop tasks with controls.
  • To examine group differences in stopping processes related to internal and external stop signal timing.

Main Methods:

  • Compared 11 pervasive hyperactive children with a control group of normal children.
  • Utilized two modified versions of the stop task with visual stop signals and a halved event rate.

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  • Varied stop signal timing: internally related (response-based) and externally related (go-process based).

    • Main Results:

    • Hyperactive children demonstrated significantly poorer inhibitory control on both stop tasks.
    • Performance deficits were consistent regardless of whether stop signals were internally or externally related.
    • Hyperactive children exhibited more variable and erratic go-processes in both tasks.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings confirm that children with hyperactivity have impaired inhibitory control.
    • Stop tasks are effective in differentiating hyperactive children from typically developing children.
    • The study highlights the role of frontal lobe functions in self-regulation deficits associated with hyperactivity.