Timing Deficits in ADHD

 

Recent studies on the ADHD brain have shown that the condition can interfere with timing and motor functions, and this especially shows in music listening. The brain has very complex cognitive procedures of coordination. Music can tell us how the brain goes about these procedures according to recent studies. Incites from neuroscience and musical rhythm have uncovered some timing deficits in the ADHD brain. The study is quite complex but shows through brain scans the inattention to beats and meter in music with the ADHD brain’s internal clock. The study showed however that the ADHD brain has more attention in predictiveness when focused on musical rhythms.

“Models based on the entrainment of multiple oscillators have had greater success in accounting for online prediction that is tolerant to more complex rhythmic structure while remaining sensitive to natural variations in performance (Large and Kolen, 1994; Large and Palmer, 2002; Angelis et al., 2013). Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that natural, non-random patterns of timing variability (i.e., those exhibiting fractal scaling and long-range correlations) may actually improve the accuracy of listeners' temporal predictions.

In their theory of neural resonance, Large and Snyder extend these computational models to propose that entrainment is performed in the brain by neural oscillators and this theory is supported by evidence from imaging and EEG studies). Interestingly, individual variation in the temporal characteristics of neural activity (including long-range correlations) has been shown to predict variability in motor timing behavior A recent paper also linked these temporal characteristics of neural activity to fluctuations in attention, and it was proposed that the typical increase in long-range correlations over the course of development may be delayed or disrupted in ADHD. This represents a fascinating area for future study, and a further potential link between ADHD and the temporal dynamics of brain and behavior.” Slater, J. Tate, M.

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