Stop and look! Evidence for a bias towards virtual navigation response strategies in children with ADHD symptoms.

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Abstract
Studies in children show that the development of spatial competence emerges between seven and eight years of age. Multiple memory systems (hippocampus-dependent spatial and caudate nucleus-dependent response learning) are involved in parallel processing of information during navigation. As a hippocampus-dependent spatial strategy also relies on frontoparietal executive control and working memory networks that are impaired in ADHD, we predicted that children will be more likely to adopt a response strategy as they exhibit ADHD symptoms. We tested 285 healthy children on a virtual radial-arm maze paradigm in order to test this hypothesis. We found that children displaying at least one ADHD symptom were more likely to have a perfect performance on a probe trial, which suggests that they did not rely on environmental landmarks. Children with ADHD symptoms may primarily rely on caudate nucleus-dependent response learning strategies at the expense of hippocampus-dependent spatial strategies. Repetition and reward based learning strategies, which are hallmarks of response learning, may be most effective in children exhibiting ADHD symptoms.
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Authors Robaey, Philippe;McKenzie, Sam;Schachar, Russel;Boivin, Michel;Bohbot, Veronique D;
Journal Behavioural brain research
Year 2016
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10.1016/j.bbr.2015.08.019
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Children hippocampus adhd caudate nucleus spatial memory twins navigational strategy

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