Functioning of Cognitive Memory Inhibition Processes in People with Down Syndrome: An Empirical Study
| Autor: | Elena Palomino, María Sotillo, José María López-Frutos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Down syndrome 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Executive Function 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Reference Values Intervention (counseling) Intellectual disability medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Memory inhibition 05 social sciences Executive functions medicine.disease Inhibition Psychological Cognitive inhibition Mental Recall Female Down Syndrome Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neurotypical Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 23 |
| ISSN: | 1988-2904 1138-7416 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/sjp.2020.4 |
| Popis: | Cognitive inhibition is part of executive functions. When it exercises control over memory processes, it has the function of regulating the accessibility of memories and allows interference to be resolved. The impairment of its functioning has been related to the presence of forgetfulness of relevant information. In this research, we study the functioning of cognitive memory inhibition processes in people with intellectual disabilities in tasks of delayed visual recognition and analyze the influence of age. For this purpose, 36 people with Down syndrome (mean age = 33.44, standard deviation = 7.54, 50% females) and 36 people with neurotypical development (mean age = 33.55, standard deviation = 7.52, 50% females) participated. The results reflected a lower effectiveness in the group of people with Down syndrome,F(1, 68) = 159.09,p< .001,$ {\upeta}_{\mathrm{p}}^2 $= .70. The people in the group with Down syndrome had difficulties in interference resolution, both in the subgroup of young people (p= .014,$ \hat{\updelta\ } $= 0.88) and in the subgroup of older people (p= .022,$ \hat{\updelta\ } $= 0.67). The impairment of cognitive inhibition in people with Down syndrome warrants the need to develop specific intervention programs for this process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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