An interventional study of Semantic group and Emotional group in Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorder Without Hyperactivity, sponsored by Fondation Lenval. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 7 Years to 12 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-05-15.
Sponsored by Fondation Lenval · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The aim of this study is to analyse explicit and implicit emotional information processing abilities in children with attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity
The main symptoms of Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are inattention, motor agitation and impulsivity. However, other dysfunctions affecting the quality of life remain poorly studied: lack of understanding and management of emotions, focus on the local aspects of a visual scene limiting the ability to assign a general meaning to the scene and alteration of long-term memory encoding. This study aims to analyse these difficulties using different tasks requiring processing of rich and varied everyday images, having high ecological validity. It involves the participation of 56 boys and girls with ADHD, aged 7 to 12 years. A first phase examines the immediate understanding of images using two tasks: semantic categorization (Experiment 1) and emotional evaluation (Experiment 2) of images with positive, negative or neutral emotional valence, and depicting real environments (natural vs. manufactured contexts) or foreground objects pasted into a noise background (inanimate objects vs. animals vs. people. In each trial, one context image and one object image are presented briefly and simultaneously, one in each visual field. In order to be appropriately understood in both their semantic and emotional contents, context images will require more global processing, while object images will require more local, detailed processing. Their semantic (Exp. 1) and emotional (Exp. 2) consistency is manipulated. A week later, the participants have to perform a memory task requiring old/new recognition in a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) paradigm that presents in each trial a pair of images (one old, one new) having the same emotional valence (Exp. 3). The study will characterize the specificities of processing and representing visual emotional information in ADHD children. The results will be compared with those from a previous study we conducted with the same methodology on neuro-typical children (controls).
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Exclusion Criteria:
-History of neurological troubles, dysphasia, autistic spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities
Half of the participants (named the "semantic group") perform a semantic categorisation task.
Other: Semantic group
Half of the participants (named the "emotional group") perform an emotional evaluation task.
Other: Emotional group
The "semantic task" has to categorise semantically (i.e., type of contexts or type of objects) one image at each trial.
The "emotional task" has to evaluate the emotional content (i.e., neutral, positive or negative) of one image at each trial.
1. Accuracy and response time at an explicit emotional evaluation task of visual scenes, by children with Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The performance at the emotional evaluation task is analyzed by association of two separate outcomes measures: measure of efficiency by the accuracy (i.e. proportion of correct response) and measure of the effectiveness by the response time at the correct trials (in milliseconds). This experiment analyzed the explicit processing of visual scenes' emotional content .
Time frame: at baseline Day 0
2. Accuracy and response time at a semantic categorization task of visual scenes, by children with Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The performance at the semantic categorization task is analyzed by association of two separate outcomes measures: measure of efficiency by the accuracy (i.e. proportion of correct response) and measure of the effectiveness by the response time at the correct trials (in milliseconds). This experiment analyzed the implicit processing of visual scenes' emotional content .
Time frame: at baseline Day 0
Proportion and response time of correct response for the contextual images compared to the local images at the semantic categorization task for ADHD's participants
The performance is analyzed by association of two separate outcomes measures: measure of efficiency by the accuracy (i.e. proportion of correct response) and measure of the effectiveness by the response time at the correct trials (in milliseconds).
Time frame: at baseline Day 0
Proportion and response time of correct response for the contextual images compared to the local images at the emotional evaluation task for ADHD's participants
The performance is analyzed by association of two separate outcomes measures: measure of efficiency by the accuracy (i.e. proportion of correct response) and measure of the effectiveness by the response time at the correct trials (in milliseconds).
Time frame: at baseline Day 0
Influence of the image's emotional content (i.e. neutral, positive or negative) on long term memory in ADHD participants
The performance, in a two-alternative forced choice (2 AFC) image recognition, is analyzed by two separate outcomes measures: measure of efficiency by the accuracy (i.e. proportion of correct response) and measure of the effectiveness by the response time (in milliseconds).
Time frame: at 1 week from the first evaluation
Performance on long term memory in ADHD participants
The performance, in a two-alternative forced choice (2 AFC) image recognition, is analyzed by two separate outcomes measures: measure of efficiency by the accuracy (i.e. proportion of correct response) and measure of the effectiveness by the response time (in milliseconds).
Time frame: at 1 week from the first evaluation
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