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Kozlov, Michail Dmitrievic. "Verbal short-term memory : cognitive and neuroscientific tests of a perceptual-gestural account." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/38725/.
Full textColby, M. Amanda Earl Stanford Matthew S. "Verbal and working memory deficits in an impulsive aggressive college sample." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5168.
Full textWallan, Ashwag. "Evaluation of Arabic tests of sentence repetition and verbal short term memory for Saudi preschoolers." Thesis, City, University of London, 2018. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19835/.
Full textGordon, Sue, and n/a. "Development of a test of verbal memory for Canberra children : a normative pilot study." University of Canberra. Education, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060712.115035.
Full textDay, Ellen Frances. "A Preliminary Study of the Revised Anna Thompson Prose Memory Assessment in Older Adults." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431010442.
Full textKoehler, Mirjam, Matthias Kliegel, Birgitt Wiese, Horst Bickel, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, den Bussche Hendrik van, Sandra Eifflaender-Gorfer, et al. "Malperformance in Verbal Fluency and Delayed Recall as Cognitive Risk Factors for Impairment in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living." Karger, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71430.
Full textBatistuzzo, Marcelo Camargo. "Ativação cerebral associada à memória episódica verbal no transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo por meio de ressonância magnética funcional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5138/tde-02062014-093057/.
Full textThe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder that affects 1-3.1% of the general population (lifetime rate). Although its neurobiological model has not been completely establish, numerous evidences indicate that areas of the cortico-striatalpale- thalamic-cortical (CSPTC) circuit are engaged in the disease. In particular, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a region that plays a key role in the pathophysiological hypothesis of OCD. In parallel to this, in healthy controls this region has been associated with the ability of using spontaneous strategies of semantic clustering at the encoding of related words - in a way that facilitates the posterior retrieval of these words. At the same time, neuropsychological studies showed that OCD patients present verbal episodic memory (VEM) deficits, and that these deficits could be mediated by executive dysfunction - like planing and utilization of strategies. Thus, to investigate the hypothesis that there are differences at the neural correlates of VEM encoding between children and adolescents with OCD and healthy controls, we used a blocked design functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) paradigm to evaluate both groups. The main objective of the study was to investigate the VEM encoding and the ability to spontaneously organize words according to their semantic categories. In order to do this, the fMRI paradigm consisted of two kinds of word lists: a semantically related list (SR), in which words were divided into semantic categories and a unrelated list (UR), were there was no apparent relationship between the words. However, the contrast of most interest of this study, was the difference between the conditions (\'SR > UR\'). The semantic clustering level was quantified by a semantic clustering index. Groups were constituted by 25 children and adolescents with OCD and 25 healthy controls paired by gender, age, educational level, handedness and IQ. Although both groups were matched for these characteristics, they differed in clinical symptoms such as depression, anxiety and routines. Behavioral results showed that the groups were similar in terms of retrieved words and semantic index. Nevertheless, the comparison between groups - controlled for clinical variables - showed less activation (BOLD signal) in patients in several brain regions: frontal, parietal and occipito-temporal. On the other hand, the psychophysiological interaction analysis (PPI) revealed that patients have had an increase in the OFC connectivity with the temporal regions. This has occurred in three of the four regions of interest that were placed in the OFC: lateral and medial of both hemispheres. Also, the patients showed a positive correlation between the semantic index and the BOLD effect in the OFC, which was not observed in the control group. These results suggest that there are differences in brain functioning of children and adolescents with OCD in regions that are inside/outside of the neurobiological model for OCD (CSPTC circuit). In accordance with the present results, these differences in brain activation and connectivity could be regarded as a latent deficit, since both groups presented the same behavioral performance
Köhler, Mirjam, Matthias Kliegel, Birgitt Wiese, Horst Bickel, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Hendrik van den Bussche, Sandra Eifflaender-Gorfer, et al. "Malperformance in Verbal Fluency and Delayed Recall as Cognitive Risk Factors for Impairment in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-135809.
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Köhler, Mirjam, Matthias Kliegel, Birgitt Wiese, Horst Bickel, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Hendrik van den Bussche, Sandra Eifflaender-Gorfer, et al. "Malperformance in Verbal Fluency and Delayed Recall as Cognitive Risk Factors for Impairment in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living." Karger, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27678.
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Vernieux, Louise Winsome. "Cisplatin chemotherapy, the auditory verbal learning test, and the structure of memory /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 1997. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17065.pdf.
Full textPereira, Michelle Miranda. "Avaliação da fluência verbal e da memória verbal em pacientes pediátricos com leucemia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5170/tde-01112018-124708/.
Full textObjective: to evaluate the cognitive-linguistic abilities of children diagnosed with acute lymphoid leukemia during chemotherapy treatment. Methods: observational cross-sectional clinical study. The research group (GLL) was composed by 18 children aged between 7 years and 10 years and 11 months, with diagnosis of acute lymphoid leukemia receiving chemotherapeutic treatment, who did not present genetic syndromes, neurological and/or auditory alterations, had not undergone radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation. A control group (GC) was collected, comprising eighteen healthy children, matched to the research group by age, gender and maternal schooling. Non-verbal intelligence, phonology, expressive vocabulary, verbal fluency, short-term verbal memory, and operational verbal memory were evaluated. The collected data were submitted to statistical analysis. Results: There were no statistical differences between groups in the intelligence and expressive vocabulary tests. The GLL group presented a worse performance in the other tests, but with significant difference only in operational memory and in the \"body parts\" category of the verbal fluency test. Conclusion: This study enabled a first analysis of the effects of chemotherapy treatment in children with leukemia on cognitive-linguistic abilities. There was no difference in expressive vocabulary, but verbal fluency and memory skills appear to be impaired in these children, when compared to the control group, although there was no statistical significance in all variables
Curtis, Kelly. "Attention and Memory Dysfunction in Pain Patients While Controlling for Effort on the California Verbal Learning Test-11." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/288.
Full textHunt, Frances Jane. "A semantic contribution to verbal short-term memory : a test of operational definitions of 'semantic similarity' and input versus output processes." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2007. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/6192/.
Full textMello, Rael Dill de. "Avaliação das relações entre a memória de trabalho verbal e visuoespacial de adultos saudáveis." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/45783.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia. Defesa: Curitiba, 16/12/2016
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Linha de pesquisa: Avaliação e reabilitação neuropsicológica
Resumo: A Memória de Trabalho é a ação combinada entre atenção e memória que regula o fluxo de informações sustentadas para a realização de uma atividade, possibilitando reter e manipular informações por um curto período de tempo. O Teste Dígitos, da Escala Wechesler de Inteligência para Adultos, é indicado para avaliar a capacidade de memória de trabalho verbal, enquanto que o Teste dos Cubos de Corsi (TCC) é tido como avaliador da memória de trabalho visuoespacial. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo avaliar a relação entre estas duas estruturas cognitivas em 107 adultos jovens saudáveis divididos em 2 grupos etários. Além dos testes supracitados, foram utilizados um questionário estruturado e a Escala Wechsler de Inteligência Abreviada. Os resultados indicam que os testes de memória de trabalho verbal e visuoespacial apresentam níveis de dificuldades diferentes na ordem inversa, sendo o TCC mais fácil do que o Dígitos. Estes achados corroboram pesquisa anteriores que questionam a analogia não verbal do TCC ao Dígitos. Palavras-chave: Avaliação Neuropsicológica; Memória de Trabalho; Cubos de Corsi; Saúde Mental.
Abstract: Working Memory is the combined action of attention and memory that regulates the flow of sustained information to perform an activity, allowing to retain and manipulate information for a short period of time. The Digit Span, from the Wechesler Adult Intelligence Scale, is a test indicated to evaluate verbal work memory capacity, while the Corsi Block Test (CBT) is considered as a visual space memory assessor. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between these two cognitive structures in 107 healthy young adults divided into 2 age groups. In addition to the aforementioned tests, a structured questionnaire and the Wechsler Scale of Abbreviated Intelligence were used. The results indicate that verbal and visuospatial work memory tests have different difficulty levels in the reverse order, with CBT being easier than Digits. These findings corroborate previous research that questions the nonverbal analogy of CBT to Digit Span. Keywords: Neuropsychological Assessment; Working Memory; Corsi Blocks Tapping Task; Mental Health.
Verreschi, Marianne Querido. "Vocabulário e memória de curto prazo verbal em pré-escolares prematuros sem risco neurológico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5170/tde-06112018-135302/.
Full textBACKGROUND: Premature labor is a condition of birth that happens at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age and is considered a biological risk factor to child development. In the first years of life, preterm infants may present changes in language development and cognitive abilities, such as memory. These difficulties may last and manifest during growth, in preschool and school-ages. Because of that, infants followed at preterm infant follow-up outpatient clinics, where screening tests are carried out to identify risks of developmental delay. This study investigated whether preschool infants born premature (Experimental Group/EG) presented indicators of language difficulty in screening tool and in vocabulary standardized tests and verbal short-term memory; compared their performance to preschool full-term infants (Control Group/CG), and finally verified the association between results obtained from screening tool and diagnostic tests. METHOD: It took part of the study 40 male and female individuals aged 4 to 5 years, assigned equally to two groups, based on gestational age at birth. They all presented regular neuropsychomotor development for their age and did not have any sensorial, neurological or genetic alterations. The groups were paired by age, socioeconomic status and their mother\'s educational level, and characterized by phonological development according to standardized test. The experimental evaluation consisted of standardized tests on expressive vocabulary, verbal short-term memory and a development triage test. RESULTS: In comparison of performance between the groups in experimental tasks, no difference was in the expressive vocabulary was observed; however, the EG showed poorer performance compared to CG and higher rates of poor performance on the verbal short-term memory test. On the development triage test, the EG was classified as suspect or risk to development more often than CG in general performance. On the language subtest, preterm infants were also classified as unappropriated more frequently than CG individuals. There was no association between EG performance classification on the screening tool and the other experimental tests, either on general performance test or language performance subtest. CONCLUSION: It was confirmed the hypothesis that preschool preterm infants would present signs of difficulty detected by the triage tool. Regarding lexical ability, it was observed that preterm infant\'s performance may be similar to full-term infants, and in the verbal short-term memory ability it was observed drawbacks when groups where compared. It is likely that the observed difficulties on memory ability may negatively interfere the lexical expansion throughout development. Finally, it was not observed any association between the results obtained from screening tool and evaluative tests
Godoy, Juliana Pardo Moura Campos. "A conjunção da informação visual e verbal na memória de trabalho demanda mais atenção quando os estímulos são complexos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59134/tde-09042013-081933/.
Full textSome studies indicate that it is possible to store binding from two different types of information in working memory. We investigated the involvement of the attention in the voluntary conjunction of visual and verbal information (chapter 1) and if the verbal and visual information are encoded in an integrated form when they are available simultaneously, independent of which information is required in the task (Chapter 2). In the first chapter, the dual tasks paradigm was used to investigate whether the effect of the attentional secondary task (a backward counting in threes), performed simultaneously to the memory task (during encoding and maintenance), would cause a decrease in the recognition of conjunction higher than the information stored individually. These tasks were performed varying two characteristics of the experimental situation that could interfere with the attentional demand for more resources, the number of items stored and complexity of stimuli. In the Chapter 2 we used the paradigm of irrelevant dimension to check the presence of incidental binding between visual and verbal information. The results showed that the binding required more attention resources than the isolated information, only when complex stimuli are stored, such as faces and names. The amount of stored items does not interfere in the relationship between buffer and central executive. In the second chapter we can see that there was a color and shape incidental binding, suggesting that in this condition the binding is stored automatically. This knowledge indicates specific characteristics of the visual and verbal binding storage pattern in working memory.
Heßler, Johannes [Verfasser], Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] Beckmann, Thomas [Gutachter] Jahn, and Jürgen [Gutachter] Beckmann. "Construction and evaluation of a verbal memory test according to neurolinguistic criteria: the Auditory Wordlist Learning Test (AWLT) / Johannes Heßler ; Gutachter: Thomas Jahn, Jürgen Beckmann ; Betreuer: Jürgen Beckmann." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2018. http://d-nb.info/117332268X/34.
Full textIaki, Suzan. "Correlato neural associado à memoria episódica verbal após treino de estratégia semântica: investigação por ressonância magnética funcional - RMf." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5138/tde-14102014-112410/.
Full textThe participation of prefrontal cortex in episodic verbal memory and its involvement in organizational semantic strategy has been demonstrated in several studies of functional neuroimage. However any previous study investigated the effects of cognitive training with semantic organizational strategy use under neural circuitry. At the present study verbal episodic memory encoding were investigated, through functional magnetic resonance (fMRI). Words lists were visually presented to fifteen volunteers in three organizational semantic conditions: 1) RS related structured, 2) RNS related unstructured e 3) UR unrelated, before and after thirty minutes in organizational semantic strategy training. The main objective was to verify the effects of training on neural activation circuitry. The participation of an active broad structure cerebral network was observed. After training the inferior frontal gyrus and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex were mainly activated. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and o orbitofrontal cortex were activated in RNS and RS conditions before training; witch enabled the application and manipulation of semantic organizational strategy. This result suggest: 1) better performance on retrieval and strategy uses after training might be associated to modification of neural activation pattern, and 2) orbitofrontal cortex BA 11 possibly is involved in strategies mobilization, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex BA 46 e 9 in the uses and maintenance the most efficient strategy
Bôa, Izadora Nogueira Fonte. "Desempenho de uma amostra de pacientes com esclerose múltipla remitente-recorrente em memória episódica verbal: um estudo longitudinal." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5138/tde-15022018-130509/.
Full textIntroduction: Regardless of the degree of physical disability, cognitive decline has been considered as having the greatest impact on important aspects of the daily life of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, such as managing household tasks, participation in society and maintaining employment. Changes in Episodic Memory (EM) in MS patients are commonly described in the literature and are observed in 40% to 65% of cases. Its impact is already observed in patients with incipient Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) and may be an indicator of a worse prognosis for disease progression. In addition, deficits in verbal memory as well as in the speed of information processing and executive function predict the occupational condition of the patients with the disease. There are several transversal works in the scientific literature that aim to investigate cognitive alterations found in these patients. However, longitudinal studies are scarce and these have revealed inconclusive and divergent results. Moreover, in both crosssectional studies and longitudinal studies, there is no concern to characterize in depth the decline of Verbal Episodic Memory (VEM) specifically. Objective: In this study, we investigated the VEM of patients with RRMS and its evolution through longitudinal evaluation. Methods: Twenty-nine patients with RRMS were submitted to two neuropsychological evaluations performed between a mean time interval of 4.5 years. Twenty-six healthy controls were submitted to a single and identical neuropsychological evaluation. A significance level of p < 0.05 was used to delineate statistical differences between the groups in the Mann Withney and Wilcoxon paired analyzes. Results: There was no statistical difference in the VEM results between the first and second neuropsychological evaluation performed by the patients. There was a statistical discrepancy in the VEM results between the control group and the patient group at the time of the initial evaluation. In contrast, at the time of the second evaluation, the group of patients did not differ statistically from the control group. Conclusions: The stabilization or discrete improvement in the performance of RRMS patients between the initial evaluation and the follow-up in the VEM trials may be related to the fact that in this study, predominantly young adults were included in the sample, with the mildest clinical form of the disease. Possible process of cerebral neuroplasticity, or even inclusion of benign cases of MS need to be considered. Coupled with this, one should consider that the brief follow-up period may not have been enough to detect possible long-term deficits
Baradel, Roberta Roque. "Desenvolvimento e aplicação de bateria de testes neuropsicológicos para avaliação da memória semântica de verbos em idosos cognitivamente saudáveis." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2016.
Find full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Neurociência e Cognição, 2016.
Introdução: Na prática neuropsicológica há pouco material investigativo disponível para analisar o processamento semântico de verbos. Um dos poucos testes utilizados nesta análise é o Kissing and Dancing - KDT (Bak & Hodges, 2003), que apenas avalia associações semânticas. Apesar de haver valores de referência do KDT no Brasil, três limitações motivaram a construção de uma nova versão ampliada: 1) necessidade de adequação a fatores socioculturais; 2) alta probabilidade de acerto ao acaso e 3) tendência a efeito teto, quando excluídos itens socioculturalmente inadequados. O presente trabalho, portanto, desenvolveu, por meio da adaptação do KDT e da criação de tarefas adicionais, uma bateria de testes que objetiva investigar estes aspectos. Neste trabalho, os testes criados foram utilizados em população de idosos cognitivamente saudáveis e, a partir dos resultados obtidos, futuras análises poderão auxiliar na melhor compreensão de algumas divergências teóricas sobre o processamento semântico lexical de verbos, inclusive em situações patológicas, bem como na identificação de perfis específicos que podem auxiliar no diagnóstico clínico de algumas dessas situações. Objetivos: desenvolver, baseando-se no KDT, um instrumento abrangente para avaliação do processamento semântico de verbos, criando testes complementares, que avaliem, além da associação semântica, a compreensão e a nomeação de ações, a fim de: investigar o funcionamento da memória semântica de verbos em idosos cognitivamente saudáveis e a relação entre a acurácia - registrada em cada um dos testes na bateria ¿ o funcionamento cognitivo global e as variáveis sociodemográficas Metodologia: A adequação do KDT previu a criação de um único instrumento balanceado em relação à complexidade pictórica, adequabilidade/padronização de nomeação, familiaridade, imageabilidade e categorização verbal (verbos de mão e corpo, com e sem instrumentos; verbos abstratos; ambientais e feitos por animais). Estes mesmos itens foram também utilizados na criação de outros dois subtestes ¿ tarefa de nomeação e compreensão auditiva. Na adaptação do teste de associação semântica, para evitar o citado efeito teto e possibilitar análises dos tipos de erros, foram ampliadas as alternativas associadas ao alvo ¿ de duas para quatro ¿ e criados distratores específicos. A consistência interna dos testes também foi avaliada e para a tarefa de associação e nomeação foi criada uma versão abreviada da bateria. Para a amostra estudada, investigou-se a relação entre o desempenho nos três subtestes e variáveis sociodemográficas (idade, escolaridade e nível socioeconômico) e o funcionamento cognitivo global (MEEM e ACE-R). Após a identificação das variáveis correlacionadas significativamente com a acurácia, um modelo de regressão foi gerado a fim de apontar qual das variáveis melhor predizem o desempenho nos testes. Para aferição de adequabilidade da bateria, os parâmetros propostos foram avaliados previamente em 20 jovens de alta escolaridade (padrão-ouro), a fim de eliminar estímulos inadequados. Após adequação, a segunda versão foi também aplicada a outros 20 universitários em estudo piloto, a fim de atestar sua adequabilidade. Finalmente, o instrumento adaptado foi aplicado em população de idosos cognitivamente saudáveis, propondose, em relação ao teste original, tarefas adicionais de compreensão auditiva e nomeação, avaliando-se a influência de escolaridade, nível socioeconômico, idade e funcionamento cognitivo global sobre o desempenho nas tarefas. Recrutaram-se 92 indivíduos idosos e 65 preencheram os critérios de inclusão/exclusão do estudo. Todos foram avaliados individualmente no Laboratório de Cognição Humana da UFABC. No teste de associação, os estímulos foram apresentados usando-se o programa e-prime (2.0) para registrar tanto a acurácia quanto o tempo de resposta. Nas provas de compreensão e nomeação, os estímulos foram apresentados em slides e analisou-se acurácia. Resultados: Entre os 65 avaliados (46 mulheres), 66% pertencem ao nível socioeconômico "B" e têm idade e escolaridade média de 67,7 e 10,8 anos, respectivamente. Nos resultados da tarefa de associação semântica, verificou-se acurácia média de 82% (42/51 pranchas), correlação significativa com escolaridade (R=0,463, p<0,001), nível socioeconômico (R=0,524, p<0,001), desempenho no MEEM (R=0,521, p<0,001) e desempenho no ACE-R total (R=0,508, p<0,001) e correlação negativa com idade (R=-0,400, p=0,001). Ao incluir todas estas variáveis em um modelo de regressão linear, apenas a variável idade se mostrou significante (p=0,038). Nos resultados do teste de nomeação, a média de acertos é de 90% (58/64 pranchas) e há correlação significativa apenas entre a acurácia e a classe socioeconômica (R=0,34, p=0,02), sendo não significativa para idade (R=-0,135 e p=0,39), escolaridade (R=0,13 e p=0,40), desempenho no MEEM (R=0,10 e p=0,52) ou no ACE-R (R=0,03 e p= 0,80). Neste teste, apenas 3 das 64 fichas apresentaram índice de respostas não-padrão maiores do que 20%, sendo motivados predominantemente por aspectos semânticos. No teste de compreensão, a média de acertos é de 98% (13,75/14 pranchas) e a acurácia não se correlaciona à idade (R=-0,16 e p= 0,30), à escolaridade (R=0,13 e p=0,41), ao nível socioeconômico (R=-148, p=0,499), ao ACE-R (R=0,22 e p=0,15), nem ao MEEM (R=0,06 e p=0,69). 4 das 14 fichas apresentaram erros acima de 10%, sendo motivados, também, por aspectos semânticos. Conclusão: Diante das análises, o novo instrumento apresenta-se como estratégia eficiente para avaliação do funcionamento de memória semântica de verbos no envelhecimento saudável. A idade é a variável que contribui para explicar o desempenho no teste de associação semântica, contrariamente aos pressupostos de que este tipo de memória não sofre alterações no processo de envelhecimento, todavia, a amostra precisa ser ampliada com maior número de indivíduos mais velhos e com mais baixa escolaridade e classe socioeconômica a fim de: verificar se os resultados obtidos para esta amostra não sofrerão alterações e permitir que etapas adicionais referentes ao processo típico de estandartização de baterias neuropsicológicas possam ser cumpridas.
Introduction: In neuropsychology, there is little investigative material available to analyze the processing verbs. One of the few tests used in this analysis is the Kissing and Dancing - KDT (Bak & Hodges, 2003), which only evaluates semantic associations. Although there are KDT reference values in Brazil, three limitations led to the construction of a new enhanced version: 1) adequacy need to sociocultural factors; 2) high probability of success at random and 3) tend to ceiling effect when inappropriate socio-cultural items are excluded. This paper, therefore, developed through a KDT adaptation and the creation of additional tasks, a battery of tests that aims to investigate the performance of healthy elderly individuals in various tasks involving semantic processing verbs. Analyzes from the results can improve the understanding of some theoretical differences over the lexical semantic processing of verbs, including pathological conditions. Objectives: to develop a new set of tests based on the KDT and suitable for the Brazilian context in order to investigate the functioning of semantic memory verbs in healthy elderly individuals. Methodology: The adequacy was accomplished by creating a single balanced instrument in relation to the pictorial complexity, suitability/standardized naming, familiarity, imageability and verbal categorization (hand and body verbs, with and without instruments; abstract verbs, environmental and made by animals) and capable to be configured as a battery test that analyze, in a correlational study and multivariate regression, the results obtained in order to compare them to the theoretical postulates that it was intended to investigate. In the adaptation of semantic association test, in order to avoid the aforementioned ceiling effect and enable analysis of the types of errors, it was enhanced the alternatives associated with the target - from two to four - and created specific distractors. For battery suitability assessment, the proposed parameters were previously evaluated in 20 young people with higher education (gold standard) in order to eliminate improper stimuli. After adjustment, the new version has also been applied to other 20 university students in a pilot study in order to prove its suitability. Finally, the adapted instrument was applied in population of healthy elderly individuals, proposing additional tasks from the original test: listening and naming to evaluating the influence of education, socioeconomic status and age on task performance. It was recruited 92 elderly and 65 met the criteria for inclusion/exclusion of the study. All are individually evaluated in Human Cognition Laboratory at UFABC. In association test, the stimuli were presented using the program e-prime (2.0) to register both the accuracy and the response time. The number of items raised in a minute was the measure analyzed in verbal fluency task. Results: Among the 65 evaluated (46 women), 66% belonging to the socioeconomic level "B" and have age and average education of 67.7 and 10.8 years respectively. The results of semantic association task, equivalent to the original KDT, there was an average accuracy of 82% (42/51 boards), significantly correlated with education (R = 0.463, p <0.001), socioeconomic status (R = 0.524, p <0.001), MMSE scores (R = 0.521, p <0.001) and the total performance ACE-R (R = 0.508, p <0.001) and negatively correlated with age (r = -0.400, p = 0.001). The linear regression model indicates that the result in accuracy can be mainly explained by age (p = 0.038). In the results of the naming test, the average score is 90% (58/64 boards) and there is only significant correlation between accuracy and socioeconomic status (R = 0.34, p = 0.02), with no significant correlation for age (R = -0.135, p = 0.39), educational level (R = 0.13 and p = 0.40), performance on the MSME (R = 0.10 and p = 0.52) nor on the ACE-R (R = 0.03 and p = 0.80). In this test, only 3 out of 64 boards had higher error rate than 20%, being predominantly motivated by semantic aspects. In the comprehension test, the mean score is 98% (13.75 / 14 boards) and accuracy is not correlated to age (R = -0.16, p = 0.30), educational level (R = 0, 13 and p = 0.41), the ACE-R (R = 0.22 and p = 0.15), nor the MSME (R = 0.06 and p = 0.69). 4 out of the 14 board had errors over 10% being also driven by semantic aspects. Conclusion: based on the analysis, the new instrument presents as an efficient approach to evaluate the semantic verbs memory in healthy aging. Age is the variable that helps to explain the performance in semantic association test, in contrast to assumptions that semantic memory does not change during the aging process. However, the sample needs to be expanded and better paired with sociodemographic variations in order that the results obtained here are verified and that additional steps for typical standardization process for neuropsychological batteries can be fulfilled.
Vilela, Ivan. "Cantando a própria história." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47134/tde-14062011-163614/.
Full textThis work intends to perform a reading of caipira music, its components and its main representative: the brazilian ten-string guitar, here approached from the standpoint of its social and musical history. In this consideration we will question some concepts, which have already been developed by other writers, on country music and its relationship to the phonographic market. For this, our eyes will be addressed to the peasant of Central-southeastern Brazil - the caipira, the way it was understood in the eyes of urbanity and the intense migratory process to Sao Paulo city and surroundings in the early twentieth century and in the 1970s. Upon leaving their places of origin, these migrants have entered a process of loss of roots, which we call uprooting. For a variety of reasons discussed here, these people were composing the suburbs of large cities and their culture was being treated as something smaller, non canonical. One aspect of peasant culture is its music expression, which had as poematic base romance, the story telling. In these musical narratives, always connected to the orality world, they recorded phonographically their saga and passed on their values of life. Through the radio waves the caipira history became known to all - a rare event in a country where only the winners history is told. The broadcasting of caipira music served as a factor re-rooting on migrants retaining their values and preserving their history. In order to confirm these ideas, we conducted interviews with migrants in order to collect their impressions about the loss and acquisition of new values
Godoy, Juliana Pardo Moura Campos. "Integração de informações visuais e verbais na memória de trabalho." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59134/tde-18032010-134348/.
Full textThe dual tasks paradigm was used to investigate the involvement of attention in the binding of verbal and visual information in working memory, and the specific role of these components when they are integrated. Two experiments were carried out, with 33 subjects, who memorized sequences of faces, names, or face-name conjunctions. In the Experiment1, these conditions were performed in separate blocks, either alone or with a backward counting in threes (CR3). In experiment2, these conditions were performed in separate blocks, with Articulatory Suppression (AS) and Dynamic Visual Noise (DVN). The CR3 caused greater loss in the conjunction than in the faces and names condition (Exp.1). The SA and the DVN have equivalent effect and they show more relevant effects in the conjunction condition. The SA revealed more relevant effect than the DVN in the face and name conditions (Exp.2). The greater prejudice of CR3 in binding, compared to that obtained in names and faces suggested that the integration of visual and verbal features demanded the involvement of attention. Moreover, the differential effect of SA towards DVN in the storage of isolated visual and verbal features, suggests that they may be stored in different ways when integrated.
Spedo, Carina Tellaroli. "Adaptação transcultural e propriedades psicométricas do subteste Visual Reproduction (Reprodução Visual I e II) da Wechsler Memory Scale - Fourth Edition (WMS-IV), (Escalas de Memória de Wechsler) para uma população do Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/17/17140/tde-13062012-234818/.
Full textTools for evaluation of non-verbal episodic memory are scarce. Furthermore, we consider the increasing need for efforts to cross-cultural adaptation of instruments of memory for our context. The subtest Visual Reproduction I and II is part of the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS), and it is used worldwide scale and adapted to different cultures, and is considered the gold standard among assessment measures of memory. In the present study, we use the Visual Reproduction subtest of WMS in its fourth edition (WMS-IV). The Visual Reproduction (VR) is subdivided into three fields of research in visual memory (immediate recall, delayed recall and recognition) and an optional task to assess visual perception, constructive abilities and attention to detail (copy). Moreover, the score of each of the three domains can be contrasted evaluated in order to obtain information on retention, and the memory is better or worse than the constructive abilities, and finally, how the subject refers freely or need tracks to evoke the information learned. This version of the WMS-IV is a review of the WMS-III, whose studies have resulted in some changes in methodology and content, to facilitate the analysis of results, lower camest application and correction. Thus, to obtain the purposes of this research were carried out two studies: Study 1 was aimed at making cross-cultural adaptation of the subtest \"Visual Reproduction I and II - Wechsler Memory Scale - IV (WMS-IV)\" and present a version for use preliminary in Brazil and the second study consisted of an evaluation of its psychometric properties. The study included a three translators fluent in English, which made independent translations, translators two professional judges and two experts (a neurologist and a neuropsychologist) who performed the conceptual and item equivalence, semantic, and operational. 24 healthy subjects responded to the pretest, which consisted in the investigation of understanding and difficulty of the adapted version of the Visual Reproduction I and II. In the second study, participated in 62 healthy adults and 29 adults with stroke in the right hemisphere in the territory of the middle cerebral artery. All subjects were aged between 20 and 59 years and the responses were considered for analysis of reliability and validity based on statistical analysis of the classical theory (ANOVA, ANCOVA, Cronbach\'s alpha, and Pearsons correlation) and the modern theory testing (Item Theory Response IRT, the model of one parameter or Rasch method). The process of analyzing the psychometric properties following the methodology recommended by the American Educational Research Association [AERA], American Psychological Association [APA] and the National council on education measure in [NCME], 2008 - indicated by the publisher responsible for the copyright of the WMS-IV. In the reliability analysis, we investigated the internal consistency (Cronbach\'s alpha) and temporal stability (Pearsons correlation). To investigate the validity, were considered: the processes of response, the internal structure (Pearsons correlation and IRT), the relationship with other tools (Mini Mental State Exam- MMSE and Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF).) and the relationship with external variables (stroke in the right hemisphere in the territory of the middle cerebral artery, compared to healthy controls). The index of internal consistency overall subtest was 0.92 and test-retest stability showed significant correlation, except with the task of delayed recall. These results are similar to the original study, showing thus their equivalence. The results of the validity study showed that there is equivalence in terms of investigating the internal structure and content. Pearson\'s correlation coefficient showed that all the figures obtained significant correlation (p <0.001) and further correlated with each moment congruently the task. In investigating the internal structure by the Rasch method has been shown that the test is one-dimensional that the progression of theta over the response categories was as expected by the model, and show that the figure is the easier task of Figure 1 - immediate recall, and is harder to figure 5- for delayed recall. The theta correlation coefficients were greater than 0.5, showing good correlation. On the map of people-items showed that the variables tended to evaluate the construct at levels below the skill of the subjects, suggesting the need for items assessing higher levels of the construct. In the analysis of validity considering other measures, the total score of immediate recall and delayed recall correlated with the total of memory task of the Rey complex figure copy. The copy of the Visual Reproduction correlated with copy of Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF). The task of ROCF immediate recall of the total score and delayed recall correlated with total MMSE. Covariance analysis showed that education exercises influences on scores of the RV. So, after controlled the variable schooling, was evident that the controls performed better than patients with stroke on all Visual Reproduction subtest. The qualitative analysis via scaling contrast scores, shown that low performance of patients with stroke is due the fact they recognize the item very badly, the motor control, visuo-constructive ability and ability to pay attention to details is lowered. Its can occur, may be due apraxia, resulting in lower acquisition of the information, resulting in difficulties in non-verbal episodic memory. Our results showing that the Visual Reproduction subtest of the WMS-IV was considered culturally equivalent in terms of reliability and validity and is appropriate for culture of the subjects and patients evaluated in Ribeirão Preto, valid and reliable for use in Brazil. We emphasize the need of studies regarding to normative data for this subtest.
Assenço, Ana Manhani Cáceres. "Memória verbal e visuoespacial de crianças com alteração primária de fala e linguagem." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5162/tde-12082015-154446/.
Full textIntroduction: The present study compared the performances of Brazilian children with specific language impairment (SLI), speech sound disorder (SSD) and typical language development (TLD) on verbal and visuospatial measures of short-term (STM) and working memory (WM). The central hypothesis of the study was that children with SLI would present poorer performances on both types and domains of memory when compared to the other groups, while children with SSD would present deficits restricted to the verbal domain. Methods: Participants were sixty children aged 5- to 6-years of both genders. Participants were divided into three groups based on their speech and language development. All children presented hearing thresholds within normal limits and presented appropriate nonverbal intellectual performance. In order to characterize the children, we assessed expressive vocabulary, phonology, auditory phoneme discrimination and socioeconomic status. The experimental assessment was composed by a phonological short-term memory test and by eight tasks based on the Automated Working Memory Assessment. This battery assesses both types and domains of memory (verbal STM, verbal WM, visuospatial STM and visuospatial WM). Results: The comparison between types and domains of memory revealed that groups exhibited the same pattern: on verbal domain they performed better on STM while on visuospatial domain they performed better on WM; on STM they performed better on verbal tasks while on WM they performed better on visuospatial tasks. Intergroup comparison revealed that children with SLI performed worse than their peers on both types and domains of memory, except on verbal STM and visuospatial WM in which they performed similarly to children with SSD. In contrast, children with SSD performed worse than children with TLD only on verbal domain. Age and socioeconomic status showed no influence on children`s performance, but nonverbal intellectual performance, expressive vocabulary, phonology and auditory phoneme discrimination were identified as covariates. Finally, discriminant analysis indicated that these measures of memory were able to significantly discriminate between 79.3% of the all children, correctly classifying 75% of children with SLI, 65% of SSD and 95% of TLD. Conclusion: Although all groups presented a similar pattern in performance regarding types and memory domains, children with SLI exhibited deficits that were not restricted to the verbal domain, while children with SSD showed deficits restricted to this domain exclusively. These findings support the central hypothesis formulated for this study and contribute to the better understanding of comprehensiveness and of factors that might mediate memory impairment of children with SLI
Funes, Cynthia. "Assessing Learning Strategy Use in English- and Spanish-Speaking Older Adults During Verbal Learning Tests." 2015. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/psych_diss/140.
Full textChu, Fang-Hsien, and 朱芳嫻. "The Performance on the Verbal Memory Subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale-III (Chinese Version) and Other Cognitive Tests of Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09176347782725395617.
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The present study compared the performance of 20 patients (CDR=1) of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) with 34 very mild dementia participants (CDR=0.5) and 30 normal control participants (CDR=0) on three verbal memory subtests in the Chinese Version of the Wechsler Memory Scale-III, including Logical Memory, Verbal Paired Associates, and Word List Learning. The researcher also used other cognitive tests that were commonly used in Taiwan in order to find out which non-memory tests have the most discriminative power for the diagnosis of dementia. Results revealed that in memory tests, the Auditory Delayed Index of the Weschler Memory Scale, which was calculated by the results of Logical Memory II and Verbal Paired Associates II, was the most predictive variable in differentiation between AD patients and normal participants. For early detection of dementia, Logical Memory subtest was found to be the best predictor for very mild dementia. In other cognitive functions, tests related to language and executive function had the most predictive value in differentiation between AD patient and normal control, such as Category Fluency, Proverbs, and Three-Dimensional Block Construction. The results of the present study provided clinical evidence for the application of the Weschler Memory Scale-III (Chinese Version) and recommendations for further study in Taiwan were also suggested.
Martins, Cátia Daniela Pinto. "Verbal memory in patients with diffuse axonal injury." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/28589.
Full textA lesão axonal difusa (LAD) é uma lesão microscópica provocada por uma aceleração rotacional da cabeça, resultado de um traumatismo crânioencefálico (TCE) e está associada a níveis elevados de morbilidade e mortalidade. Investigadores têm estudado a origem dos défices de memória verbal nesta população. A presente investigação objetiva analisar a relação entre as diferentes medidas de desempenho de memória verbal (memória imediata, memória diferida, evolução da aprendizagem e percentagem de retenção) de doentes com LAD. Para tal foram recolhidos 14 doentes adultos com LAD do CMRRC-RP, os quais realizaram uma das seguintes provas: Memória Lógica I e II (ML) da Escala de Memória de Wechsler-III (WMS-III) ou o teste de Aprendizagem Audio-Verbal de Rey (RAVLT). Foram realizados coeficientes de correlação de Pearson e de Ponto-Bisserial e os resultados mostraram correlações significativas entre o sexo e a variável memória imediata (rpb=-.63, p=.008), bem como correlações entre as variáveis memória imediata e a evolução da aprendizagem (r=.73, p=.003), memória imediata e a memória diferida (r=.91, p=.000), memória imediata e a percentagem de retenção (r=.81, p=.003), memória diferida e a evolução da aprendizagem (r=.88, p=.000), memória diferida e a percentagem de retenção (r=.95, p=.000) e por fim, evolução da aprendizagem e a percentagem de retenção (r=.78, p=.005). Ao contrário do esperado, os resultados não mostraram correlações significativas entre estas variáveis e as variáveis clínicas pontuação da GCS e tempo de coma. De uma forma geral, foi possível inferir que as quatros variáveis dependentes correlacionam-se entre si, o que significa que o desempenho dos doentes com LAD numa destas variáveis influenciará o seu desempenho nas restantes. Isto acontece uma vez que as fases do processo de memória estão relacionadas. Se fases mais primárias do processo de memória falharem, as posteriores não irão obter sucesso, refletindo-se em fracos desempenhos de memória verbal.
Mestrado em Psicologia da Saúde e Reabilitação Neuropsicológica
Curtis, Kelly L. "Attention and memory dysfunction in pain patients while controlling for effort on the California Verbal Learning Test-II." 2005. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,262.
Full textTitle from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology Applied Biopsychology"--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
Papežová, Vanda. "Odhad normativních hodnot pro test sémantické verbální fluence u seniorů nad 50 let." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-447396.
Full textRibeiro, Ana Catarina Mourão Alves. "Sugestionabilidade interrogativa em crianças dos 4 aos 9 anos: estudo normativo com o Bonn Test Statement of Suggestibility (BTSS) e análises de variáveis relacionadas com a sugestionabilidade." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/26855.
Full textO interesse pelo estudo da sugestionabilidade interrogativa nas crianças tem vindo a fazer-se notar em psicologia do desenvolvimento. Neste sentido, a presente investigação tem como objetivo primordial obter informação normativa do desempenho de crianças portuguesas dos 4 aos 9 anos num instrumento de avaliação da sugestionabilidade interrogativa específico para crianças: The Bonn Test Statement of Suggestibility (BTSS). Adicionalmente, pretende-se averiguar em que medida as variáveis sexo, idade, inteligência não verbal, desempenho mnésico e problemas de comportamento externalizantes e internalizantes se correlacionam com a sugestionabilidade interrogativa. A amostra é constituída por 600 crianças com idades compreendidas entre os 4 e os 9 anos, de ambos os sexos (50% do sexo masculino e 50% do sexo feminino), que frequentam creches, infantários ou escolas pré-primárias e escolas de 1º ciclo de ensino básico nos Distritos do Porto, Aveiro e Braga. No que que concerne aos resultados da análise em componentes principais verificou-se uma estrutura diferente do BTSS da que foi concebida pelos autores. Os resultados deste estudo demonstraram que no que respeita ao grau de sugestionabilidade, não existem diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre rapazes e raparigas. O mesmo se verificou em relação à idade, embora exista uma tendência para que as crianças mais novas sejam mais sugestionáveis com exeção das crianças de 4 anos. As crianças com resultados superiores ao nível da inteligência não verbal (Matrizes Coloridas de Raven-Forma Paralela) são menos sugestionáveis do que as que obtêm resultados inferiores, com exeção das crianças de 4 anos. A sugestionabilidade interrogativa revelou uma correlação negativa e significativa com a Memória (tarefas de V evocação imediata da história estímulo do BTSS), contudo quando foram utilizadas outras provas (Total de Aprendizagem da Lista de Palavras e Reconhecimento Diferido da Lista de Aprendizagem) o mesmo não se verificou. Todavia verificou-se uma tendência para que as crianças mais velhas obtenham melhores resultados. No que respeita aos problemas de comportamento externalizantes, apenas se verificou uma correlação estatisticamente significativa entre estes e a sugestionabilidade interrogativa no grupo dos 7 anos e segundo a avaliação dos professores. No que concerne aos problemas internalizantes, verificou-se uma correlação estatisticamente significativa entre estes e a sugestionabilidade interrogativa segundo a avaliação dos pais e para todas as idades. Adicionalmente, apurou-se que os pais e professores se encontram de acordo no que se refere ao grupo etário com mais problemas internalizantes (9 anos). Do ponto de vista normativo optou-se por dois agrupamentos de idade (4, 5 e 6 anos e 7, 8 e 9 anos), tendo-se verificado um incremento sistemático dos resultados com o aumento da idade. Considerados globalmente, os resultados da presente investigação sugerem que o The Bonn Test Statement of Suggestibility (BTSS) pode ser utilizado com as devidas precauções nos 4, 5, 6, 8 e 9 anos de idade e com maior precisão e validade com crianças de 7 anos.
Interest in the study of interrogative suggestibility in children has been pointed in developmental psychology. In this sense, this research has the main objective to obtain normative data on task performance in Portuguese children aged 4 to 9 years in a specific assessment tool of interrogative suggestibility for children: The Bonn Test of Statement Suggestibility (BTSS). In adittion, we intend to investigate the effects of gender, age, non-verbal intelligence, memory and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems in interrogative suggestibility of children. We used a sample of 600 children aged 4 to 9 years old, of both sexes (50% male and 50% female) attending day care centers, kindergartens or pre-schools and schools of 1st grade in the districts of Porto, Aveiro and Braga. The results of the analysis of the main component showed a slight different structure from the original. Regarding interrogative suggestibility the results showed that there were no significant differences between boys and girls. The same evidence was found regarding age, although there is a tendency for the younger children to be more suggestible with the exception of 4 years old children. Children with better perfomances in non-verbal intelligence (measured by Raven’s Coloured Progressives Matrices Parallel-Form) were less suggestible than those children with worst performance in these tests, with the exception of 4 years old children. Statistically significant correlation was found between interrogative suggestibility and memory (immediate recall tasks of stimulus history of BTSS). However, when it was used other measures, the same cannot be found (Total of Word List Learning and Recognition of Deferred Learning List). However, there was a tendency for the older child to show better performance. Statistically significant correlation was found between externalizing behavior problems and interrogative suggestibility only in 7 years old children, according to teacher assessment. As regards internalizing problems, it was observed statistically significant correlation between these and interrogative suggestibility, according to parents assessment. In adittion, it was found that parents and teachers are in agreement regarding the age group with more internalizing problems (9 years old). Normative data was also presented for two groups of age (4, 5 and 6 years and 7, 8 and 9 years) showing an increase of the results with age. It is important to note that the results of this investigation suggest that The Bonn Test of Statement Suggestibility (BTSS) can be used with precautions in 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 years old children and with greater accuracy and validity with 7 years old children.