CEMIC - CONICET 26185
CENTRO DE EDUCACION MEDICA E INVESTIGACIONES CLINICAS "NORBERTO QUIRNO"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Preliminary Results of a Cognitive Training Intervention Based on Individual Differences Aimed at Optimizing Cognitive Performance of Children from Poor Homes
Autor/es:
GIOVANNETTI, FEDERICO
Lugar:
Mendoza
Reunión:
Workshop; ISSBD Regional Workshop ?Investing in Sustainable Childhoods: Implications for preventive and intervention research; 2019
Institución organizadora:
ISSBD
Resumen:
In the last three decades it has been verified the growth of intervention studies aimed at optimizing cognitive self-regulatory processes in preschool-aged children from poor and low-socioeconomic (SES) homes. An important issue in this area of research is that after implementing and evaluating the eventual impact of training activities not all the participants in the intervention groups are benefited in the same way. Some hypotheses propose that this finding might be related to individual differences in self-regulation and variability of environmental factors. We designed and implemented an intervention (experimental design: intervention and control groups; 80 children of 5-years-old from poor homes) in a kindergarden setting aimed at optimizing cognitive performance (i.e., attention, inhibitory control, working memory, planning) through computerized activities. We categorized participants into different performance groups according to their basal scores and assigned them to different training menus based on those individual differences. After this, participants were sorted randomly into control and training groups. Children in the latter group were trained with tasks designed to enhance cognitive performance, whereas children in the control group played a series of games downloaded from Google Play Store that were not designed for cognitive training. Cognitive performance varied from basal to post training stages in the Stroop Task (e.g., p < .05) Tower of London (e.g., p < .001), and ANT (e.g., p < .05). Changes were different for each performance and intervention groups. Further analysis on individual and environmental factors may address which factors led to individual differences in training outcomes.
