Infant Scale of Selective Attention: A Proposal to Assess Cognitive Abilities
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https://doi.org/10.35670/1667-4545.v17.n1.17077Keywords:
Infant development, cognition, selective attention, assessment scaleAbstract
The aim of this research was to test the Infant Scale of Selective Attention (EEAS, in Spanish) on healthy infants with no suspected neurological damage, in order to obtain normalcy initial parameters for the use of the instrument.
The sample consisted of two hundred babies between two and eight months of age who were enrolled in the daycares of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. To obtain the normalcy initial parameters, descriptive statistics were used to calculate the mean, the standard deviation, the minimum and maximum scores, and percentiles. The EEAS allows for identification of delays in the development of the attention process by comparing an individual score to their age group in the tables. The findings of this study suggest that EEAS is a useful tool to evaluate the development of the attention process during infancy.
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