Response inhibition: training and effects linked to the level of inhibition in pre-test, in children

Authors

  • Yesica Aydmune Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT) - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
  • Isabel Introzzi Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT) - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
  • Ana Comesaña IPSIBAT, UNMDP- CONICET
  • Sebastián Lipina UNA - CEMIC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.5383

Keywords:

response inhibition, training, school children, perceptual inhibition, transfer, executive functions

Abstract

From non-unitary perspective of inhibition, three inhibitory processes are identified: perceptual, cognitive and response inhibition. Response inhibition allows suppressing prepotent and inappropriate responses for the current purposes. In the last years, different interventions targeted at optimizing it during the first years of school period. However, the studies are insufficient to understand the efficacy of the interventions on response inhibition and other inhibitory processes, both short- and long-term; and the characteristics that are linked to the results. The goals aims: to analyze the efficacy of a response inhibition training on this process and perceptual inhibition, both short- and long-term, in children in the first years of elementary school; and to analyze if the relationships of age and the level of inhibition in pre-test are related to the results. The participants (93 children, from 6 to 8 years old) were assigned to a training or a control group, in an experimental design, with a pre-test and two post-tests. We observed effects in the short term on children’s performance on a response inhibition task. The children who benefited more from the intervention were those who started the intervention with a lower level of inhibition. We discuss the contribution of these results to non-unitary perspective, the scope of the interventions and the study of the participants’ characteristics related to the results. 

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Author Biographies

Yesica Aydmune, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT) - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Doctora en Psicología. Investigadora Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Integrante del Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. 

Isabel Introzzi, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT) - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Doctora en Psicología. Investigadora Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Integrante del Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología (IPSIBAT). Docente Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. 

Ana Comesaña, IPSIBAT, UNMDP- CONICET

Doctor in Psychology. Researcher National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Member of the Institute of Basic and Applied Psychology and Technology (IPSIBAT). Professor at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Sebastián Lipina, UNA - CEMIC

Doctor of Psychology. Director of the Applied Neurobiology Unit (UNA), Center for Medical Education and Clinical Research "Norberto Quirno" (CEMIC). Researcher National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Professor at the National University of San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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2021-02-03

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Aydmune, Y., Introzzi, I., Comesaña, A., & Lipina, S. (2021). Response inhibition: training and effects linked to the level of inhibition in pre-test, in children. CES Psicología, 14(2), 140–163. https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.5383

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