Inattentive ADHD and Visual Processing
Inattentive ADHD (ADHD-PI, ADD) and visual processing problems go hand and hand.
A new study published in the Journal of Clinic Child and Adolescent Psychology found that people with Inattentive ADD had an attenuated or slower attentional blink when they were compared with controls or Combined type ADHD participants.
Attentional blink is a phenomenon that describes what you can see in a fast changing visual environment.
If objects are presented visually one right after the other, you may see the first and miss the second because of the phenomena known as attentional blink.
Attentional blink, to a certain extent, is just a measure of how quickly your visual processing recovers after being presented with a stimulus.
What the recent study found was not surprise.
People with Inattentive ADHD recover more slowly.
Attentional blink and another visual phenomenon known as subitizing (a term that describes the number of objects that you can visually perceive without counting them) are good measures of the capacity of a person's visual attention or visual processing abilities.
Two researchers, Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier, at the University of Rochester, New York, have found that your visual processing abilities are not fixed and can be improved dramatically using video action games.
They have been able to produce dramatic improvements in both blink times and subitizing.
These results were only seen with action, fast moving video games and were not seen when participants played other video games such as Tetris.
According to Green and Bavelier, participants who played the game, 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault' for an hour each day for 10 days were able to subitize to a higher number and recovered from the attention blink faster.
The researchers concluded that both visual processing and the capacity for visual attention could be significantly improved by playing fast action video games.
People with Inattentive ADHD with visual processing problems can be helped by playing fast action video games.
Many of these games are available, free of charge, on the Internet.
As little of 10 hours of fast action video gaming can make a big difference in visual attention and should be considered as an additional therapy in people with ADD.
A new study published in the Journal of Clinic Child and Adolescent Psychology found that people with Inattentive ADD had an attenuated or slower attentional blink when they were compared with controls or Combined type ADHD participants.
Attentional blink is a phenomenon that describes what you can see in a fast changing visual environment.
If objects are presented visually one right after the other, you may see the first and miss the second because of the phenomena known as attentional blink.
Attentional blink, to a certain extent, is just a measure of how quickly your visual processing recovers after being presented with a stimulus.
What the recent study found was not surprise.
People with Inattentive ADHD recover more slowly.
Attentional blink and another visual phenomenon known as subitizing (a term that describes the number of objects that you can visually perceive without counting them) are good measures of the capacity of a person's visual attention or visual processing abilities.
Two researchers, Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier, at the University of Rochester, New York, have found that your visual processing abilities are not fixed and can be improved dramatically using video action games.
They have been able to produce dramatic improvements in both blink times and subitizing.
These results were only seen with action, fast moving video games and were not seen when participants played other video games such as Tetris.
According to Green and Bavelier, participants who played the game, 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault' for an hour each day for 10 days were able to subitize to a higher number and recovered from the attention blink faster.
The researchers concluded that both visual processing and the capacity for visual attention could be significantly improved by playing fast action video games.
People with Inattentive ADHD with visual processing problems can be helped by playing fast action video games.
Many of these games are available, free of charge, on the Internet.
As little of 10 hours of fast action video gaming can make a big difference in visual attention and should be considered as an additional therapy in people with ADD.
