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Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study
This study aims to investigate distractibility quantified by recording and analyzing eye movements during task-irrelevant distraction in children with and without ADHD and in children with and without neurological disorders. Gaze behavior data and press latencies of 141 participants aged 6–17 that w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101369 |
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author | Sweere, Dirk J. J. Pel, Johan J. M. Kooiker, Marlou J. G. van Dijk, Johannes P. van Gemert, Elizabeth J. J. M. Hurks, Petra P. M. Klinkenberg, Sylvia Vermeulen, R. Jeroen Hendriksen, Jos G. M. |
author_facet | Sweere, Dirk J. J. Pel, Johan J. M. Kooiker, Marlou J. G. van Dijk, Johannes P. van Gemert, Elizabeth J. J. M. Hurks, Petra P. M. Klinkenberg, Sylvia Vermeulen, R. Jeroen Hendriksen, Jos G. M. |
author_sort | Sweere, Dirk J. J. |
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description | This study aims to investigate distractibility quantified by recording and analyzing eye movements during task-irrelevant distraction in children with and without ADHD and in children with and without neurological disorders. Gaze behavior data and press latencies of 141 participants aged 6–17 that were collected during a computerized distraction paradigm with task-irrelevant stimuli (IDistrack) were analyzed. Children using attention-regulating medication were excluded from participation. Data were analyzed for subgroups that were formed based on the presence of neurological disorders and the presence of ADHD separately. Participants with ADHD and participants with neurological disorders spent less time fixating on the target stimuli compared to their peers without ADHD (p = 0.025) or their peers without neurological disorders (p < 0.001). Participants with and without ADHD had equal press latencies (p = 0.79). Participants with neurological disorders had a greater press latency compared to their typically developing peers (p < 0.001). Target fixation duration shows a significant association with parent-reported attention problems (r = −0.39, p < 0.001). We conclude that eye tracking during a distraction task reveals potentially valid clinical information that may contribute to the assessment of dysfunctional attentional processes. Further research on the validity and reliability of this paradigm is recommended. |
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spelling | pubmed-95995662022-10-27 Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study Sweere, Dirk J. J. Pel, Johan J. M. Kooiker, Marlou J. G. van Dijk, Johannes P. van Gemert, Elizabeth J. J. M. Hurks, Petra P. M. Klinkenberg, Sylvia Vermeulen, R. Jeroen Hendriksen, Jos G. M. Brain Sci Article This study aims to investigate distractibility quantified by recording and analyzing eye movements during task-irrelevant distraction in children with and without ADHD and in children with and without neurological disorders. Gaze behavior data and press latencies of 141 participants aged 6–17 that were collected during a computerized distraction paradigm with task-irrelevant stimuli (IDistrack) were analyzed. Children using attention-regulating medication were excluded from participation. Data were analyzed for subgroups that were formed based on the presence of neurological disorders and the presence of ADHD separately. Participants with ADHD and participants with neurological disorders spent less time fixating on the target stimuli compared to their peers without ADHD (p = 0.025) or their peers without neurological disorders (p < 0.001). Participants with and without ADHD had equal press latencies (p = 0.79). Participants with neurological disorders had a greater press latency compared to their typically developing peers (p < 0.001). Target fixation duration shows a significant association with parent-reported attention problems (r = −0.39, p < 0.001). We conclude that eye tracking during a distraction task reveals potentially valid clinical information that may contribute to the assessment of dysfunctional attentional processes. Further research on the validity and reliability of this paradigm is recommended. MDPI 2022-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9599566/ /pubmed/36291303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101369 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sweere, Dirk J. J. Pel, Johan J. M. Kooiker, Marlou J. G. van Dijk, Johannes P. van Gemert, Elizabeth J. J. M. Hurks, Petra P. M. Klinkenberg, Sylvia Vermeulen, R. Jeroen Hendriksen, Jos G. M. Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | Clinical Utility of Eye Tracking in Assessing Distractibility in Children with Neurological Disorders or ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | clinical utility of eye tracking in assessing distractibility in children with neurological disorders or adhd: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9599566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101369 |
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