Feigned ADHD Associated Cognitive Impairment: Utility of Integrating an Eye-tracker and the MOXO-dCPT

Astar Lev; Tomer Elbaum; Corinne Berger; Yoram Braw

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Feigned ADHD Associated Cognitive Impairment: Utility of Integrating an Eye-tracker and the MOXO-dCPT

Astar Lev, Tomer Elbaum, Corinne Berger, Yoram Braw

Department of Psychology

Ariel University

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Abstract

Objective: The current study assessed the utility of eye-movements measures, gathered while participants performed a commercially available Continuous Performance Test (CPT), to detect feigned ADHD-associated cognitive impairment. Method: Healthy simulators (n = 37), ADHD patients (n = 33), and healthy controls (n = 36) performed an eye-tracker integrated MOXO-dCPT and a stand-alone validity indicator. Results: Simulators gazed significantly longer at regions that were irrelevant for successful MOXO-dCPT performance compared to ADHD patients and healthy controls. This eye-movement measure, however, had lower sensitivity than traditional MOXO-dCPT indices. Discussion: Gaze direction measures, gathered while performing a CPT, show initial promise as validity indicators. Traditional CPT measures, however, are more sensitive and therefore offer a more promising path for the establishment of CPT-based validity indicators. The current study is an initial exploration of the issue and further evaluation of both theoretical and practical aspects is mandated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1212-1222
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Attention Disorders
Volume	26
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10870547211063643
State	Published - Jul 2022

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The research reported in this paper was completed as part of the first author’s (A.L.) MA dissertation (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel), the second and third authors’ (T.E. and C.B.) PhD dissertation (Ariel University, Ariel, Israel), and the undergraduate program requirements of Adi Narov, Adi Zafris, Amit Yarkoni, Eden Katzav, Ela Drookman, Michal Shisha, Sean Shachar, and Tzoor Cohen. We thank them for their invaluable contribution to the project. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Neurotech Solutions, the publishers of the MOXO-d-CPT, permitted the researchers to use the MOXO-d-CPT free of charge for the duration of the study and for the purpose of the described study.

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Tzoor Cohen

Keywords

ADHD
MOXO-dCPT
continuous performance test
eye tracking
feigned cognitive impairment

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