A Correlational Study Between Executive Functions and Conditional Discriminations in Children with Autism

Oliveira, Sabrina David de; Elias, Nassim Chamel

doi:10.1590/0102.3772e39203.en

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Behavioral Sciences • Psic.: Teor. e Pesq. 39 • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0102.3772e39203.en copy

A Correlational Study Between Executive Functions and Conditional Discriminations in Children with Autism

Um Estudo Correlacional Entre Funções Executivas e Discriminações Condicionais em Crianças com Autismo

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Abstract

Neuropsychology is a science that allows tracing the profile of cognitive impairments and preserved skills to design appropriate treatments and educational practices aiming at a better quality of life for the individual. This is basic correlational research, which objective was to verify if the results found in the executive functions in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are predictive of or have some correlation with the performance in conditional discrimination through choice tasks according to the identity matching-to-sample (MTS) model. Correlations revealed significant associations between neuropsychological tests and MTS tasks. Future research may further explore MTS tasks for the assessment and intervention of individuals with ASD.

Keywords:
Autism Spectrum Disorder; executive functions; MTS

Sets	1	2	3
A
B
C
D

Participant	Age	Institution	Wisconsin	Corsi cubes		Trails test		Attention
Participant	Age	Institution	Perseverative Responses	Direct Order	Inverse Order	Part A	Part B	Attention
A	4y 8m	Regular	0	0	0	0	0	0
B	5y	Regular	0	0	0	0	0	0
C	5y 9m	Regular	6	3	0	3	5	20
D	6y	Special	13	3	0	0	3	37
E	8y 5m	Special	110	6	0	0	12	16
F	8y 6m	Special	4	0	0	4	0	10
G	8y 6m	Regular	67	1	0	8	18	27
H	9y 10m	Regular	63	4	0	2	14	40
I	10y	Special	0	0	0	0	0	5
J	10y 7m	Special	1	2	0	3	2	10
K	10y 8m	Special	70	0	0	5	3	12
L	11y	Regular	60	0	0	3	2	21
M	12y 11m	Regular	36	6	0	8	8	60

	Corsi	Wisconsin	Trails A	Trails B	Cancellation
MTS Set A	ρ = 0.484	ρ = 0.714	ρ = 0.114	ρ = 0.710	ρ = 0.780
MTS Set A	(Moderate)	(High)	(None)	(High)	(High)
MTS Set B	ρ = 0.539	ρ = 0.711	ρ = -0.090	ρ = 0.541	ρ = 0.553
MTS Set B	(Moderate)	(High)	(None)	(Moderate)	(Moderate)
MTS Set C	ρ = 0.380	ρ = 0.860	ρ = 0.111	ρ = 0.637	ρ = 0.563
MTS Set C	(Moderate)	(Very high)	(none)	(High)	(Moderate)
MTS Set D	ρ = 0.457	ρ = 0.615	ρ = -0.088	ρ = 0.443	ρ = 0.527
MTS Set D	(Moderate)	(High)	(none)	(Moderate)	(Moderate)

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