title: Attentional blink in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the temporal mechanism of attention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controls using a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task in which two letters (T1 and T2) were presented in close temporal proximity among distractors (attentional blink [AB]).
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty children aged between 9 and 13 years (12 with ADHD combined type and 18 controls) took part in the study. Both groups performed two kinds of RSVP task. In the single task, participants simply had to identify a target letter (T1), whereas in the dual task, they had to identify a target letter (T1) and a probe letter (T2).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The ADHD and control groups were equivalent in their single-task performance. However, in the dual-task condition, there were significant between-group differences in the rate of detection of the probe letter (T2) at lag + 1 and lag + 4. The ADHD group exhibited a larger overall AB compared with controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings provide support for a link between ADHD and attentional blink.
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment, School of Psychology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Amador-Campos
authors.affiliation: Cognition and Behavior (IR3C), Institute for Brain, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: J Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Aznar-Casanova
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Department of Psychology, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Izabela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bezerra
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Department of Psychology, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Nelson
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Torro-Alves
authors.affiliation: Department of Basic Psychology, School of Psychology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Manuel M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Sánchez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D054518:Attentional Blink / Q000502:physiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014796:Visual Perception