Motor overflow and attentional processes in normal school-age children.
Two groups of 28 school-age children (divided equally by sex) who were equivalent in terms of chronological age and IQ but differed in the prevalence of motor overflow were given a concept identification task designed to measure relative attentiveness to central, task-related cues and incidental, social environmental ones. Children with a high level of overflow were relatively more responsive to social cues than to task-related ones, while children with a low level were more equally responsive to the two types of cues. The results are interpreted in terms of a relationship between motor overflow and attentional processes.
D001288:Attention; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003210:Concept Formation; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D011340:Problem Solving