Demographic Variables and Selective, Sustained Attention and Planning through Cognitive Tasks among Healthy Adults

Demographic Variables and Selective, Sustained Attention and Planning through Cognitive Tasks among Healthy Adults

Introduction: Cognitive tasks are considered to be applicable and appropriate in assessing cognitive domains. The purpose of our study is to determine the relationship existence between variables of age, sex and education with selective, sustained attention and planning abilities by means of compute...

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Veröffentlicht in:Basic and clinical neuroscience 2011-04, Vol.2 (3), p.58-67
Hauptverfasser: Zarghi, Afsaneh, Zarindast, Mohammad Reza
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Sprache:eng
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Cognitive ability
Demographics
Planning
Selective Attention
Sustained Attention
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Cognitive tasks are considered to be applicable and appropriate in assessing cognitive domains. The purpose of our study is to determine the relationship existence between variables of age, sex and education with selective, sustained attention and planning abilities by means of computerized cognitive tasks among healthy adults. Methods: A cross-sectional study was implemented during 6 months from June to November, 2010 on 84 healthy adults (42 male and 42 female). The whole participants performed computerized CPT, STROOP and TOL tests after being content and trained. Results: The obtained data indicate that there is a significant correlation coefficient between age, sex and education variables (p
ISSN:2008-126X
2228-7442