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  Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryVolume 47 Issue 6, Pages 568 - 572 Published Online: 22 Sep 2005 Journal Compilation © 2010 ACAMH Published on behalf of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 73K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Colour perception in ADHD Copyright 2005 The Authors Journal compilation 2006 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health KEYWORDS Colour vision • attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder • dopamine • Stroop-Colour-Word test ABSTRACTAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with unexplained impairments on speeded naming of coloured stimuli. These deficits may reflect hypofunctioning retinal dopaminergic mechanisms impairing particularly blue–yellow colour discrimination. Colour perception and rapid colour naming ability were investigated in 14 children with ADHD and 13 healthy peers matched for age, gender, and IQ, using the Farnsworth–Munsell 100 Hue Test (FMT) and the Stroop-Colour-Word test. Children with ADHD committed more errors on the FMT, particularly on discrimination of colours along the blue–yellow axis, and were slower on Stroop subtests involving colour naming. However, the latter deficit was accounted for similarly by blue–yellow and red–green discrimination abilities. Blue–yellow colour perception problems in ADHD contribute to but do not fully explain the observed slowed colour naming. Manuscript accepted 25 May 2005 | 
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