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Marianna Kyriacou; Cecilie Rummelhoff; Franziska Köder – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts pragmatic communication abilities in children, including their understanding of verbal irony. This study aims to investigate whether adults with ADHD experience similar challenges in interpreting ironic statements, and to examine the role of executive attention abilities in accounting…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Figurative Language, Adults, Executive Function
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Zhang, Hui; He, Yunfeng; Tao, Ting; Shi, Jian-Nong – High Ability Studies, 2016
The term "intellectually gifted rural-to-urban migrant children" refers to intellectually gifted children who are in migration from rural to urban areas. We compared performances on seven attention tasks among intellectually gifted (n = 26) and average (n = 30) rural-to-urban migrant and intellectually gifted urban children (n = 31). Our…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Rural to Urban Migration, Children, Attention
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Woumans, Evy; Ceuleers, Evy; Van der Linden, Lize; Szmalec, Arnaud; Duyck, Wouter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The present study explored the relation between language control and nonverbal cognitive control in different bilingual populations. We compared monolinguals, Dutch-French unbalanced bilinguals, balanced bilinguals, and interpreters on the Simon task (Simon & Rudell, 1967) and the Attention Network Test (ANT; Fan, McCandliss, Sommer, Raz,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Cognitive Processes