AUDITORY TEMPORAL PROCESSING IN CHILDREN WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) Processamento auditivo temporal em crianças com transtorno do déficit de atenção com hiperatividade (TDAH)

Conflict of interest: non-existent and the temporal lobe and the superior olivary complex would be responsible for the perception of sequential patterns of stimuli and the encoding of temporal information2. The literature has described comorbidities among the symptoms of children with attention defficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and auditory processing (AP) and such symptoms have been neglected in the evaluation and therefore the rehabilitation of these individuals3, 4. Children with ADHD have problems in various aspects of temporal information processing, including the difficulty in discriminating the duration of sounds, which contributes to the low results found in cognitive and behavioral assessments of these children5, 6. The literature6 has related to the processing of temporal information as a multidimensional concept, and have encouraged the development of a wide variety of methods to quantify the abilities that „ INTRODUCTION