title: Inhibitory control of proactive interference in adults with ADHD.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with poor inhibition of prepotent responses and deficits in distractor inhibition, but relatively few studies have addressed inhibitory control of proactive interference (PI) in individuals with ADHD. Thus, the goal of the present study was to evaluate resistance to spatial and verbal PI in adults with ADHD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Adults with ADHD (n = 32) and adults without ADHD (n = 32) performed a spatial inhibition of return (IOR) task and a semantic IOR task.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adults with and without ADHD showed effective spatial IOR. On the semantic IOR task, adults without ADHD showed semantic inhibition, whereas adults with ADHD showed semantic facilitation (positive priming) instead.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adults with ADHD may have domain-specific deficits in resistance to proactive interference. Research has theoretical and clinical implications for adults with ADHD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, TN 38152, USA. hawhite@memphis.edu
authors.forename: Holly A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003118:Color Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011334:Proactive Inhibition; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics