Desarrollo de la Capacidad de Memoria de Trabajo: Efectos de Interferencia Inter e Intra Dominio en Niños de Edad Escolar

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Lorena Canet-Juric
Isabel Introzzi
Débora Burin

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La memoria de trabajo (MT) refiere al sistema cognitivo que se ocupa del almacenamiento temporal y procesamiento concurrente de estímulos. Se ha propuesto que la habilidad para inhibir información irrelevante subyace a los cambios en MT observados durante la infancia, ya que la habilidad inhibitoria en el paradigma de doble tarea cambiaría dependiendo de que las tareas primaria y secundaria sean de similar o diferente modalidad. El objetivo de este trabajo fue explorar el desarrollo de la MT en los dominios verbal y visoespacial tomando en cuenta la interferencia de modalidad específica versus no específica. Para ello se administró a 100 niños, de entre nueve y 11 años de edad, una batería basada en el paradigma dual que consta de tareas primarias y secundarias verbales y viso-espaciales. Los resultados muestran menores rendimientos de la memoria viso-espacial, mejor rendimiento sin tarea concurrente, y con tareas concurrentes intermodales, y diferencias en el rendimiento en tareas concurrentes interdominio verbal y espacial en los tres grupos etáreos. Estos hallazgos ponen en duda el papel del control inhibitorio en el desarrollo de la memoria de trabajo en la edad evaluada.

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Desarrollo de la Capacidad de Memoria de Trabajo: Efectos de Interferencia Inter e Intra Dominio en Niños de Edad Escolar. (2015). Revista Argentina De Ciencias Del Comportamiento, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n1.7678
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Lorena Canet-Juric, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

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Isabel Introzzi, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

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Débora Burin, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires

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Desarrollo de la Capacidad de Memoria de Trabajo: Efectos de Interferencia Inter e Intra Dominio en Niños de Edad Escolar. (2015). Revista Argentina De Ciencias Del Comportamiento, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n1.7678

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