SAGE Journals Online
Advertisement
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Advertisement

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Attention Disorders
This Article
Right arrow Abstract Freely available
Right arrow Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by White, H. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by White, H. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Inhibitory Control of Proactive Interference in Adults With ADHD

Holly A. White, PhD

University of Memphis, hawhite{at}memphis.edu

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. Method: 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. Conclusion: Adults with ADHD may have domain-specific deficits in resistance to proactive interference. Research has theoretical and clinical implications for adults with ADHD. (J. of Att. Dis. 2007;11(2)141-149)

Key Words: ADHD • adult(s) • inhibition • inhibition of return/IOR • proactive interference

References

  • Aron, A.R., Dowson, J.H., Sahakian, B.J., & Robbins, T.W. (2003). Methylphenidate improves response inhibition in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 54, 1465-1468.
  • Barkley, R.A. (1997). Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: Constructing a unifying theory of ADHD. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 65-94.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Barkley, R.A., & Murphy, K.R. (1998). Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A clinical workbook. New York: Guilford.
  • Berger, A., & Posner, M.I. (2000). Pathologies of brain attentional networks. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 24(3), 3-5.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Bjork, R.A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger III & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory and consciousness: Essays in honour of Endel Tulving (pp. 309-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Bjork, E.L., & Bjork, R.A. (1996). Continuing influences of to-be-forgotten information. Consciousness and Cognition, 5, 176-196.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Boatwright, B.S., Bracken, B.A., Morgan, S.B., Relyea, G., & Young, J.E. (1995). Boatwright-Bracken Adult Attention Deficit Scale: Construction and preliminary validation. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment: Monograph Series, 108-130.
  • Boonstra, A.J., Kooij, J.J.S., Oosterlaan, J., Sergeant, J., & Buitelaar, J.K. (2005). Does methylphenidate improve inhibition and other cognitive abilities in adults with childhood-onset ADHD? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27, 278-298.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Boonstra, A.J., Oosterlaan, J., Sergeant, J., & Buitelaar, J.K. (2005). Executive functioning in adult ADHD: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Medicine, 35, 1097-1108.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Borgo, F., Giovannini, L., Moro, R., Semenza, C., Arcicasa, M., & Zaramella, M. (2003). Updating and inhibition processes in working memory: A comparison between Alzheimer's type dementia and frontal lobe focal damage. Brain and Cognition, 53, 197-201.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Bowles, B., Ferber, S., & Pratt, J. (2005). Letter processing interferes with inhibition of return: Evidence for cortical involvement. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 1-7.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Bowles, R.P., & Salthouse, T.A. (2003). Assessing the age-related effects of proactive interference on working memory tasks using the Rasch model. Psychology & Aging, 18, 608-615.[CrossRef]
  • Bunge, S.A., Ochsner, K.N., Desmond, J.E., Glover, G.H., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). Prefrontal regions involved in keeping information in and out of mind. Brain, 124, 2074-2086.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  • Bush, G., Frazier, J.A., Rauch, S.L., Seidman, L.J., Whalen, P.J., Jenike, M.A., et al. (1999). Anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder revealed by fMRI and the counting Stroop. Biological Psychiatry, 45, 1542-1552.
  • Carter, C.S., Krener, P., Chaderjian, M., Northcutt, C., & Wolfe, V. (1995). Asymmetrical visual-spatial attentional performance in ADHD: Evidence for a right hemispheric deficit. Biological Psychiatry, 37, 789-797.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Casey, B.J., Castellanos, F.X., Giedd, J.N., Marsh, W.L., Hamburger, S.D., Schubert, A.B., et al. (1997). Implication of right frontostriatal circuitry in response inhibition and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 374-383.[CrossRef]
  • Edwards, G., Barkley, R.A., Laneri, M., Fletcher, K., & Metevia, L. (2001). Parent-adolescent conflict in teenagers with ADHD and ODD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29, 557-572.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Epstein, J.N., Johnson, D.E., Varia, I.M., & Conners, C.K. (2001). Neuropsychological assessment of response inhibition in adults with ADHD. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23, 362-371.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Fernandez-Duque, D., & Posner, M.I. (2001). Brain imaging of attentional networks in normal and pathological states. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23(20), 74-93.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Friedman, N.P., & Miyake, A. (2004). The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: A latent-variable analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 101-135.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Fuentes, L.J., & Santiago, E. (1999). Spatial and semantic inhibitory processing in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 13, 259-270.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Fuentes, L.J., Vivas, A.B., & Humphreys, G.W. (1999). Inhibitory mechanisms of attentional networks: Spatial and semantic inhibitory processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1114-1126.[CrossRef]
  • Gaultney, J.F., Kipp, K., Weinstein, J., & McNeill, J. (1999). Inhibition and mental effort in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Development and Physical Disabilities, 11, 105-114.[CrossRef]
  • Hervey, A.S., Epstein, J.N., & Curry, J.F. (2004). Neuropsychology of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analytic review. Neuropsychology, 18, 485-503.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Houghton, S. (2006). Advances in ADHD research through the lifespan: Common themes and implications. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 53, 263-272.[CrossRef]
  • Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2000). Working-memory capacity, proactive interference, and divided attention: Limits on long-term memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 336-358.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2002). The role of the prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective. Psychological Bulletin and Review, 9, 637-671.
  • Karatekin, C. (2004). A test of the integrity of the components of Baddeley's model of working memory in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 912-926.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Lawrence, V., Houghton, S., Tannock, R., Douglas, G., Durkin, K., & Whiting, K. (2002). ADHD outside the laboratory: Boys' executive function performance on tasks in videogame play and on a visit to the zoo. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 447-462.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Li, C. -S. R., Chang, H.L., & Lin, S.C. (2003). Inhibition of return in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Experimental Brain Research, 149, 125-130.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Lubow, R.E., Braunstein-Bercovitz, H., Kaplan, O., & Toren, P. (2005). Latent inhibition and asymmetrical visual-spatial attention in children with ADHD. Child Neuropsychology, 11, 445-457.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Lustig, C., May, C.P., & Hasher, L. (2001). Working memory span and the role of proactive interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 199-207.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Miyake, A., Friedman, N.P., Emerson, M.J., Witzki, A.H., Howerter, A., & Wager, T.D. (2000). The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "frontal lobe" tasks: A latent variable analysis. Cognitive Psychology, 41, 49-100.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Murphy, K.R., Barkley, R.A., & Bush, T. (2001). Executive functioning and olfactory identification in young adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. Neuropsychology, 15, 211-220.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Nigg, J.T. (2000). On inhibition/disinhibition in developmental psychopathology: Views from cognitive and personality psychology and a working inhibition taxonomy. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 220-246.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Nigg, J.T. (2001). Is ADHD a disinhibitory disorder? Psychological Bulletin, 127, 571-598.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Nigg, J.T., Blaskey, L.G., Huang-Pollack, C.L., & Rappley, M.D. (2002). Neurological executive functions and DSM-IV ADHD subtypes. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 41, 59-66.[CrossRef]
  • Nigg, J.T., Butler, K.M., Huang-Pollack, C.L., & Henderson, J.M. (2002). Inhibitory processes in adults with persistent childhood onset ADHD. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 153-157.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Oosterlaan, J., Logan, G.D., & Sergeant, J.A. (1998). Response inhibition in AD/HD, CD, Comorbid AD/HD + CD, anxious, and control children: A meta-analysis of studies with the stop task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 411-425.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Pierce, C.A., Block, R.A., & Aguinis, H. (2004). Cautionary note on reporting eta-squared values from multifactor ANOVA designs. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 64, 916-924.[Abstract]
  • Postle, B.R., & Brush, L.N. (2004). The neural bases of the effects of item-nonspecific proactive interference in working memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 379-392.
  • Rolfe, M.H.S., Hausmann, M., & Waldie, K.E. (2006). Hemispheric functioning in children with subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Attention Disorders, 10, 20-27.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  • Scheres, A., Oosterlaan, J., Swanson, J., Morein-Zamir, S., Meiran, N., Schut, H., et al. (2003). The effect of methylphenidate on three forms of response inhibition in boys with AD/HD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 31, 105-120.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]
  • Schweitzer, J.B., Faber, T.L., Grafton, S.T., Tune, L.E., Hoffman, J.M., & Kilts, C.D. (2000). Alterations in the functional anatomy of working memory in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 278-280.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  • Stroop, J.R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-662.
  • White, H., & Marks, W. (2004). Updating memory in list-method directed forgetting: Individual differences related to adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 1453-1462.[CrossRef]
  • Wickens, D.D. (1970). Encoding categories of words: An empirical approach to meaning. Psychological Review, 77, 1-15. Wodushek, T.R., & Neumann, C.S. (2003). Inhibitory capacity in adults with symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 18, 317-330.[CrossRef][Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve]

This version was published on September 1, 2007

Journal of Attention Disorders, Vol. 11, No. 2, 141-149 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1087054706295604
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?



This Article
Right arrow Abstract Freely available
Right arrow Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by White, H. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by White, H. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Advertisement