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      WCST and NEUPSILIN: relationships among executive functions, attention, memory and language Translated title: WCST e NEUPSILIN: relações entre funções executivas, atenção, memória e linguagem

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          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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          Este estudo investigou a relação entre medidas do WCST e de uma bateria breve de funções cognitivas (NEUPSILIN), com o objetivo de fornecer uma melhor compreensão sobre a associação entre processos executivos e demais funções. Participaram 39 pessoas entre 14 e 61 anos de idade e média de escolaridade de 12,38 (DP=3,65) anos de estudo. A hipótese de que correlações moderadas a fortes se dariam entre as medidas de funções executivas, memória de trabalho, atenção e memória prospectiva do NEUPSILIN e os escores no WCST foi parcialmente corroborada, porque a intensidade das correlações foi inferior ao previsto. Também foram encontradas correlações entre escores do WCST e tarefas que mensuram componentes de memória episódico-semântica, linguagem oral (processamento inferências) e escrita (leitura).

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              A modified card sorting test sensitive to frontal lobe defects.

              H Nelson (1976)
              Milner's (1963) report of impaired performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) in a group of patients with frontal lobe lesions suggested that this test might be a useful one in the investigation of individual patients with suspected brain lesions. However, for many of our older hospital population the WCST was found to be too difficult and distressing, and also the inherent ambiguities associated with certain responses limited the test's usefulness for research purposes. Therefore, a simpler and less ambiguous modification was devised (MCS) and a new method of measuring perseverative errors proposed. In a group of 53 patients with unilateral cerebral lesions, those with frontal lobe lesions performed less well with the MCST and made a higher proportion of perseverative errors than those with lesions elsewhere: there were no laterality effects in either frontal or non-frontal groups. The usefulness of the MCST for detecting frontal lobe lesions in individual patients was established, and the use of cut-off scores briefly discussed.
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                Journal
                prc
                Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
                Psicol. Reflex. Crit.
                Curso de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre )
                0102-7972
                2013
                : 26
                : 3
                : 506-515
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
                [2 ] Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil
                [3 ] Universidade Federal do ABC Brazil
                [4 ] Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
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                S0102-79722013000300010
                10.1590/S0102-79722013000300010
                4561a8dd-e78d-4fd7-b811-218aabd9c0bc

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Executive functions,cognition,neuropsychology,WCST,NEUPSILIN,Funções executivas,cognição,neuropsicologia

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