35 - ATTENTIONAL TRAINING: EFFECTS ON SHORT-TERM MEMORY IN INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE AGING PROCESS.

Authors

  • Gisele de Paula Vieira
  • Erlaine Rezende de Oliveira Carraro
  • Sebastião Claudio Batista Ferreira
  • Vernon Furtado da Silva

Keywords:

Attention, Short-term memory, Memory training

Abstract

Evidence indicates certain kinds of mental exercises and life style as lessening the memory retrogenic process. This perspective was adopted for a memory exercises training aimed at improving attentional processes, and consequently, short-term memory performance and mental processing for a group of 24 individuals, aged from 65 to 85 years. Post exercises improvement was examined by the Carvalho (2006) protocol and a test called SKT (ERZIGKEIT, 2001) was used in measuring the mental processing factor. The non-parametric statistics used for the scores analysis revealed to be significant with the signal tests index z = 3, 27 (0.05) > 1, 96, p<0.05 for the episodic memory test, but not for the mental processing one (p > 0.05).

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TRABALHOS PUBLICADOS

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35 - ATTENTIONAL TRAINING: EFFECTS ON SHORT-TERM MEMORY IN INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE AGING PROCESS. (2011). Fiep Bulletin - Online, 80(2). https://ojs.fiepbulletin.net/fiepbulletin/article/view/1496