FACE AND EMOTION RECOGNITION BY ADHD AND NORMAL ADULTS
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2010, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
To compare speed, speed variability and accuracy during feature integration, frontal, profile and upside-down face recognition, as well as identification and matching of emotions in facial expression, in ADHD and normal adults. Four subtests from the Amsterdam Neuropsychological Test (ANT) and the Emotional Continuous Performance Test (ECPT) were applied in 50 ADHD and 50 normal adults. ADHD adults took significantly longer than the controls to select the feature, face and emotion displayed, for both ANT and ECPT tasks. There was no statistical difference between the ADHD and control group for accuracy in ANT tasks, while during ECPT tasks the ADHD adults demonstrated less accuracy than the control group. These results for the speed and its variability showed that both ANT and ECPT can be used efficiently as additional objective diagnostic procedures for the evaluation of ADHD in adults, whereas for accuracy, ECPT seems to be more discriminative than the standard ANT.
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Silvana Markovska-Simoska, Nada Pop-Jordanova
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