Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (2): 28-34.

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The Influence of Proactive Interference on the Verbal Working Memory of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) and Reading Disability(RD) Children

ZHANG Wei1,2, LIU Xiang-ping1, SONG Hong-yan1   

  1. 1, School of psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. School of psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Online:2009-04-15 Published:2009-04-15

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Abstract: Many studies had showed the verbal working memory problems of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and reading disability (RD) children,but the deficits of the two disorders were different in specific aspects of verbal working memory.Proactive interference was regarded as one of the most important central executives and contributed to the working memory span.In this study,a new task which consisted of recent probe task and verbal nback task was adopted to explore the disadvantageous influence of proactive interference (PI) on the verbal working memory.The effect of PI could be computed by the subtraction from the performance of the no nrecent probes to the performance of the recent negative probes.Sixty disorder children and seventeen normal children engaged in this study,aged between 7～12 years old.Compared with the no nrecent negative probes,all groups deteriorated in the recent negative probes; ADHD only and ADHD+RD groups decreased greatly (26.44%,28.44%),but the control and RD only groups decreased less (14.62%,15.84%) and no significant differences were found between RD only and control children.The results suggested that ADHD was more easily influenced by PI than RD and the ability of resisting PI of RD was not deficient; they also showed that there were different deficit mechanisms of verbal working memory in ADHD and RD.

Key words: ADHD, reading disability, proactive interference, 1-back

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  • B844.1
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