Do children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have set shifting deficits?

Lauren N IrwinMichael J KoflerElia F SotoNicole B Groves

Published in: Neuropsychology (2019)

Children with ADHD's impaired performance on shifting tasks may be attributable to difficulties maintaining competing rule sets and/or inhibiting currently active rule sets prior to shifting. However, when these higher-order processes are executed successfully, there is no significant evidence to suggest a unique set shifting deficit in ADHD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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