Desenvolvimento e testagem de uma bateria de avaliação informatizada de atenção, memória e controle inibitório em crianças do Ensino Fundamental I
Tipo
Tese
Data de publicação
2017-09-22
Periódico
Citações (Scopus)
Autores
Lellis, Vera Rocha Reis
Orientador
Carreiro, Luiz Renato
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Membros da banca
Seabra, Alessandra Gotuzo
Pinheiro, Walter Machado
Fuso, Simone Freitas
Covre, Priscila
Pinheiro, Walter Machado
Fuso, Simone Freitas
Covre, Priscila
Programa
Distúrbios do Desenvolvimento
Resumo
Neuropsychological assessment studies processes interrelated issues, such as attention, memory, and
inhibitory control. Attention can be understood as a set of neural processes that allow adequate selection
of information from the environment, and therefore guide adaptive responses. Memory, however, is
considered a complex and multiple system combined with coding arrangements or subsystems that allow
the storage and retrieval of brain information. The executive process component, inhibitory control refers
to the ability to withstand a first impulse and to control behavior or thinking. The objective of this study
was to develop and test a battery of computerized evaluation of attention, memory and inhibitory control
in children of Elementary School and to evaluate how these functions develop over the school years. 85
children aged 6 to 11 years, from a private school in a city in the state of SP, were participating in this
study. Traditional instruments (pencil-paper tests) and computerized instruments were used for
evaluation. They were used as instruments: Wechsler Scale of Intelligence (WISC- IV) Subtest: Digit
Span and Letter – Number Sequencing; Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WAIS), subtest:
Vocabulary and Matrix Reasoning; Attention by Cancelling Test (TAC); Test of Tracks. For behavioral
evaluation there were: Behavioral Scale (CBCL/6-18) and Functional Instrument (IFERI) applied to
parents. The following tests were used for the school teachers: Behavioral Scale (TRF/6-18); Functional
Instrument (IFERI). Multivariate anovas were used to compare the results according to school series and
person correlation analyzes between the indices of the instruments to evaluate their possible associations.
Results showed the children presented satisfactory index in all traditional tests (pencil and paper). On the
other hand, the computerized automatic and voluntary attention tests show a decrease in reaction time
(RT) as a result of the school year. Older children showed better targeting of voluntary and automatic
attention. That fact can be attributed to maturity of the attentional system. Another observed factor was
that the TR for the condition where the track and target come in the same position (Ipsolateral) tends to be
smaller than the condition in which the track come on opposite sides (Contralateral). It is possible to
observe that the RT in the 800 ms range are smaller than the RT for 100, 300 ms intervals because the
children have more time to direct the attention. In the correlation of computerized tests, reduced RTs and
hits grow as children grow older and study more advanced school series. In the Go X No-Go Tests RTs
increase because older children are more capable to wait the correct answers then younger. That shows
older children have a better inhibitory control then younger. Additionally, older children were faster than
the youngers to begin and solve the memory tests. In the correlations between the computerized tests and
the IFERI we can see that parents come with more problems than teachers. Although the teachers report
fewer problems, it is verified that the difficulties perceived through the instruments are more consistent
with the performance of the children in the tests. For those reasons, it is possible to say the proposed
computerized tests help to evaluate cognitive abilities in the human developed process.
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Palavras-chave
atenção , memória , controle inibitório , avaliação neuropsicológica , testes informatizados
Assuntos Scopus
Citação
LELLIS, Vera Rocha Reis. Desenvolvimento e testagem de uma bateria de avaliação informatizada de atenção, memória e controle inibitório em crianças do ensino fundamental I. 2017. 117 f. Tese (Distúrbios do Desenvolvimento) - Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo .