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A previous study (Marotta et al., 2014) showed that individuals with ADHD have a selective impairment in orienting attention in response to eye-gaze direction. However, they preserved attentional orienting in response to non-social stimuli (arrow and peripheral cues). Moreover, in a later study (Marotta et al., 2017), we observed that ADHD individuals were also less sensitive than matched controls to the eye-gaze direction when it was used as a distracting stimulus in a Stroop-like task. No difference between ADHD and controls was observed when arrows were used as distracting stimuli. These findings may suggest that only the social-specific components elicited by eye-gaze but not the domain-general directional component of the spatial congruency effect could be impaired by ADHD symptomatology. Consistent with a preserved domain-general component of the spatial congruency effect, Polner (2015) showed no association between ADHD-like traits and congruency effect when no-social directional stimuli such arrows were used as targets in a spatial interference task (e.g. spatial Stroop/Simon like task). Here, we will examine, for the first time, the relationship between the RCE and ADHD-like traits [measured by means of the Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale-IV (Barkley, 2011) and Adult ADHD Self-Report Screening Scale for DSM-5 (Ustun et al., 2017)] in a large sample of healthy adults. The SCE elicited by arrows will also be investigated. Suppose only the social-specific components elicited by eye-gaze but not the domain-general component of the SCE is impaired by ADHD. In that case, a negative correlation should be observed only between ADHD-like traits and the RCE elicited by eye-gaze, but not between ADHD traits and the SCE elicited by arrows.
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