Keywords
education
emotions
ADHD
evoked potentials
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Abstract
The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex neurobiological disorder origin, characterized both its cognitive implications of their involvement as the basis of affective and cognitive emotional processing. This research has analyzed the differences in cognitive processing of emotional content, with the aim of assessing the difficulties presented by persons with ADHD in these tasks, by measuring the emotional content of the words of a test lexical decision.
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