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Executive Functioning and Sensory Processing In ADHD
University of West Florida Libraries
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, 08/2024)
08/2024
Abstract
People with ADHD often have issues with sensory processing where they are either over or under-responsive to environmental stimuli (Kamath et al., 2020). Many theories suggest that problems with executive functioning play a role (e.g., Fabio et al., 2024; Dang et al., 2022; Icer et al., 2019). Yet, questions on where the origin of sensory processing differences in people with ADHD begin and how sensory processing is related to executive functioning still remain. Visual evoked potentials can reliably indicate response to sensory information in the cortex. The AASP is a measure that assigns scores to participants based on their patterns of sensory processing (low registration, sensory sensitivity, sensory seeking, sensory avoiding; Brown &Dunn, 2002). Our ongoing study found that people with ADHD had amplitudes that were significantly different from controls and were strongly and negatively correlated with high scores of low-registration on the AASP. These differences were in response to stimuli presented before the level of cognitive awareness. We would like to expand these findings by developing a procedure to examine the differences at the level of cognitive awareness.
Details
- Title
- Executive Functioning and Sensory Processing In ADHD
- Resource Type
- Poster
- Event
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program (University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, 08/2024)
- Contributors
- Vanessa R Rainey (Faculty Mentor)
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries; Argo Scholar Commons
- Format
- pdf
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380576893206600
- Academic Unit
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program 2024; Psychology; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English