Preferential Choice to Exert Cognitive Effort in Children with ADHD: a Diffusion Modelling Account.

ABSTRACT: Greater sensitivity to the cost of effortful engagement has long been implicated in the development of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The current study evaluated preferential choice to engage in demanding tasks, and did so in combination with computational methods to interrogate the process of choice. Children aged 8-12 with (n = 49) and without (n = 36) ADHD were administered the cognitive effort discounting paradigm (COG-ED, adapted from Westbrook et al., 2013). Diffusion modelling was subsequently applied to the choice data to allow for a better description of the process of affective decision making. All children showed evidence of effort discounting, but, contrary to theoretical expectations, there was no evidence that children with ADHD judged effortful tasks to be

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543603 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature