Journal article
Do Inattention/Hyperactivity and Motor Timing Predict Children’s Virtual Road-Crossing Performance?
Journal of pediatric psychology, Vol.46(9), pp.1130-1139
09/27/2021
DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsab054
PMID: 34402519
Abstract
Abstract
Objective
The goal of this investigation was to examine how individual variation in inattention and hyperactivity is related to motor timing difficulties and whether children’s performance on simple laboratory timing tasks is related to their performance on a virtual road-crossing task using a head-mounted virtual reality display system.
Methods
Participants were a community sample of 92 9- to 11-year-old children. Parents completed questionnaires assessing their child’s inattention and hyperactivity. Children completed two simple motor timing tasks (duration discrimination and synchronization-continuation) and crossed roads with continuous traffic in a head-mounted VR system.
Results
Higher parent-reported inattention and hyperactivity predicted poorer performance in the duration discrimination and synchronization-continuation tasks, but not the virtual pedestrian road-crossing task. Children with higher tap onset asynchrony in the synchronization-continuation task had poorer timing of entry into the gap in the virtual pedestrian road-crossing task.
Conclusions
The findings provide further evidence that timing deficits are associated with individual differences in inattention and hyperactivity and that timing difficulties may be a risk factor for functional difficulties in everyday life.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Do Inattention/Hyperactivity and Motor Timing Predict Children’s Virtual Road-Crossing Performance?
- Creators
- Morgan N D Parr - The University of IowaHanxi Tang - The University of IowaSophia R Mallaro - The University of IowaJoseph K Kearney - The University of IowaJodie M Plumert - The University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of pediatric psychology, Vol.46(9), pp.1130-1139
- DOI
- 10.1093/jpepsy/jsab054
- PMID
- 34402519
- NLM abbreviation
- J Pediatr Psychol
- ISSN
- 0146-8693
- eISSN
- 1465-735X
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/27/2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984213392202771
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