title: The Effects of Preresponse Cues on Inhibitory Control and Response Time in Adults With ADHD.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of preresponse cues on behavioral control in adults with ADHD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-eight adults with ADHD and 67 adults with no history of ADHD completed a cued go/no-go task. This task requires participants to respond or inhibit a response to go and no-go targets, respectively, and preresponse cues provide participants with predictive information about the upcoming target.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, participants with ADHD made more inhibitory failures and responded more slowly than controls. These group differences were only present in the valid-cue condition, and there were no significant group differences in the invalid-cue conditions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings suggest that adults with ADHD are less able to utilize predictive environmental information to facilitate behavioral control.
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA milich@email.uky.edu.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Milich
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
authors.forename: Mark T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Fillmore
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adult ADHD; cognitive functioning; inhibition