Children with attention disorders struggle to process whole faces during social interactions

Children with attention disorders struggle to process whole faces during social interactions

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder often struggle to automatically track where other people are looking. A recent study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders revealed that this difficulty stems from challenges in processing whole faces, rather than an inability to notice simple eye movements. These results help explain the social difficulties sometimes experienced by children with the disorder and point toward poten…