Children With Mathematical Learning Difficulties Are Sluggish in Disengaging Attention

Zhang, Xiaoxian; Fu, Wanlu; Xue, Licheng; Zhao, Jing; Wang, Zhiguo

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00932

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“…In the literature, the original Posner task has been adapted, and in the present study the small number of trials was decided because of the age and pathologies of children, tested also because of eye movement's recording. Indeed, recent paper ( 25 ) recording eye movements in children of about 9 years old used a number of trials similar to ours. Note that the results of eye movements' latency had a similar order of magnitude.…”

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“…The low number of trials could be considered a limitation of this study; however, this could be explained by the fact that we did not want to tire children, particularly children with ADHD when latency of eye movements was recorded. Note also that in the literature studies leading with the Posner task in children, a shorter version of the Posner task was used even when the manual ( 40 ) or latency ( 25 ) response was recorded.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Impairment in Attention Focus During the Posner Cognitive Task in Children With ADHD: An Eye Tracker Study

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Attention is a major cognitive function that allows the individuals to focus selectively on a discrete stimulus while ignoring others. Visual information could be driven endogenously, when the goals or desires are voluntary, or exogenously, in response to salient visual events in the environment. Since subjects with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show heightened distractibility during activities that require significant attentional engagement, we hypothesized that they may be more severely impaired in their ability to perform endogenous tasks than controls. To elicit endogenous and exogenous shifts of attention, we thus used a modified version of Posner's cueing task. We compared oculomotor performance measured by an eye tracker in a group of 31 children with ADHD (mean age = 9.1 ± 1.3 years) and age-, sex-, and IQ-matched typically developing children. Endogenous and exogenous conditions were explored in three distinct visual sub-conditions (valid, invalid, and neutral). We found that children with ADHD showed longer latency during endogenous conditions compared to TD children in invalid sub-conditions. They also performed more errors than controls, during the endogenous task in neutral sub-conditions and during exogenous task in neutral and invalid sub-conditions. Our study suggests that children with ADHD may allocate their attention resource toward the detection of exogenous targets with a deficit in their ability to perform endogenous task. We suggest also that they have a difficulty in the engagement of the inhibitory control system particularly during voluntary saccade performance. This could result from impaired interactions between the ventral and dorsal attention networks as well as in the frontal eye field, although neuroimaging studies are necessary to validate this hypothesis in the ADHD population.

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“…One of the balls was cued by turning red for 300 ms before reverting to blue. Following a 200 ms interstimulus interval, the black cross in the middle turned red to attract attention away from the previously cued location (Zhang et al, 2019). After another period of 150 or 250 ms (these two intervals were randomly arranged to prevent participants from learning the time intervals), the target (a red ball) was presented for 250 ms at one of the locations in either the cued or un-cued depth plane.…”

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The Inhibition of Return of Sanda Athletes in Three Dimensional Static and Dynamic Scenes

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Percept Mot Skills

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Sanda is a combat sport in which athletes adopt offensive and defensive techniques for barehanded confrontations. Inhibition of return (IOR) describes a phenomenon in which an individual’s response time to a target appearing at a previously cued location is slower than to a target appearing at an un-cued location. Because Sanda requires attention skills and fast response times in dynamic situations, a good understanding of IOR among Sanda athletes is important for enhancing their performance. We recruited 180 research participants for a 3-part study — 90 Sanda athletes (age M = 21.56, SD = 2.68; 52 males, 38 females) and 90 college student controls (age M = 21.64, SD = 2.40; 45 males, 45 females). We used the IOR paradigm with virtual reality technology to explore Sanda athletes’ IOR in three experimental conditions: three-dimensional (3-D) static, dynamic, and mixed. There was a robust IOR effect in the 3-D static scenario, with the IOR effect larger among Sanda athletes than controls. There were different IOR spread patterns between Sanda athletes and controls, and the IOR effect was weaker or absent when the objects moved. There was a speed advantage for Sanda athletes once a static object started moving. In conclusion, the Sanda athletes’ faster response times and more fine-graded IOR in 3-D environments may benefit their visual search in combat, and the reference of the static location may be critical for the IOR effect.

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“…Scholars have studied the influence of cognitive abilities on children with learning disabilities 28 . The study pointed out that teachers needed to address psychosocial concerns of children with learning disabilities 29 .…”

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Research on children's cognitive development for learning disabilities using recommendation method

Shen

2020

Concurrency and Computation

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In order to achieve effective cognitive training that can significantly improve the learning abilities of children with learning disabilities, we consider the computer‐based assistive technologies and propose a personalized cognitive training items recommendation method based on children's preferences and evaluation values. First, we devise an improved cognitive ability evaluation method to evaluate children's cognitive ability values. Second, we transform these values to corresponding cognitive levels using K‐means clustering algorithm and form comprehensive cognitive level maps to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of children in terms of cognitive abilities. Finally, an improved collaborative filtering recommendation method combining children's preferences and evaluation values are represented to generate a superior training proposal. The proposed method is implemented on our cognitive development platform (CogDaily) which is an assistive system and used for testing and practicing. The fifth‐grade students with learning disabilities in mathematics in a primary school in Hangzhou are selected as subjects. They are divided into test group and control group for 2 weeks of testing through this platform. The analysis results of the changes of cognitive abilities before and after the experiment show that the accurate recommendation proposal can effectively enhance children's cognitive abilities and improve their learning abilities.

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Children With Mathematical Learning Difficulties Are Sluggish in Disengaging Attention

Cited by 7 publications

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Impairment in Attention Focus During the Posner Cognitive Task in Children With ADHD: An Eye Tracker Study

Impairment in Attention Focus During the Posner Cognitive Task in Children With ADHD: An Eye Tracker Study

The Inhibition of Return of Sanda Athletes in Three Dimensional Static and Dynamic Scenes

Research on children's cognitive development for learning disabilities using recommendation method

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