WCST and NEUPSILIN: relationships among executive functions, attention, memory and language
This study investigated the relationship between measures of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and a brief battery of cognitive functions (NEUPSILIN) with the goal of providing a better understanding of the association between executive processes and other functions. The sample included 39 peop...
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Published in | Psicologia, reflexão e crítica Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 506 - 515 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English Portuguese |
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Porto Alegre
Springer Nature B.V
01.01.2013
Curso de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul SpringerOpen |
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Summary: | This study investigated the relationship between measures of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and a brief battery of cognitive functions (NEUPSILIN) with the goal of providing a better understanding of the association between executive processes and other functions. The sample included 39 people, from 14 to 61 years old, with an average education of 12.38 (SD = 3.65) years of study. The hypothesis that correlations would be moderate to strong between the measures of executive function, working memory, attention and prospective memory from NEUPSILIN and WCST scores was partially corroborated because the intensity of the correlations was below than the expected. Other correlations were also found between the WCST scores and tasks that assess semantic-episodic memory, oral language (inference processing) and writing (reading) components. |
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ISSN: | 0102-7972 1678-7153 1678-7153 |
DOI: | 10.1590/S0102-79722013000300010 |