An Exploratory Study for Assessment of Multimodal Semantic Memory in Colombian Children
| Autor: | Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Bárbara Carrea, Jorge I. Vélez, Moisés Mebarak Chams, Valentina Vásquez, María Camila Navarro |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Navarro, María C, Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, Vásquez, Valentina, Carrea, Bárbara, Vélez, Jorge I, Chams, Moisés Mebarak |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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assessment Neuropsychological evaluation lcsh:BF1-990 Exploratory research Memoria semántica Assessment 050105 experimental psychology Age and gender Correlation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intellectual disability Niños colombianos medicine Semantic memory 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Set (psychology) General Psychology neuropsychological evaluation Research Articles Evaluación 05 social sciences memoria semántica Colombian children medicine.disease Colombian Children lcsh:Psychology Psychology Semantic Memory 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sentence Evaluación neuropsicológica Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Psychological Research International Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 49-58 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2011-7922 |
| Popis: | Semantic memory (SM) is a type of long-term memory associated with the storage of general information about the world. Here we assessed the characteristics of the SM battery, developed by Catricalà et al. (2013), in a sample of Colombian children. This battery was originally conceived to evaluate adults, and features six subtests that assess SM in different modalities, using a common set of 48 stimuli in both living and nonliving categories. The design of the current study is of across-sectional and exploratory type. The sample was composed of 111 children,57 boys (51%) and 54 girls (49%), who were 6 (n = 68) and 7 (n = 43) years old and had no intellectual disability. Robust linear regression models and correlation networks were used. We found an effect of age on general intelligence after correcting for gender, and no differences on the six subtest scores after corrections for gender and age were performed. Furthermore, age was found to be positively associated with the naming of colored photographs (β = .75, p = .039), naming in response to an oral description (β = 1.81, p = .039), picture sorting at four levels(β = 7.22, p = .029), and sentence verification (β = 26.66, p = .01). In addition,there were differences between the results obtained in adults in the original study and in the children of our study. This exploratory study supports the feasibility of the Spanish translation of the Catricalà et al. (2013) battery to assess SM in children with a nonclinical condition. Future studies are needed to evaluate the psychometric properties of this SM battery, and to corroborate and expand our findings in a larger sample of control children, and in children with some degree of intellectual disability or suffering of some neurodegenerative or psychiatric conditions. Refereed/Peer-reviewed |
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