SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.17 número1Características psicométricas do "Portable Tactual Performance Test" (P-TPT) em indivíduos cegosProcessos implícitos não-conscientes na tomada de decisão: a hipótese dos marcadores somáticos índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

Compartir


Ciências & Cognição

versión On-line ISSN 1806-5821

Resumen

NUNEZ CARVALHO, Janaína Castro et al. Decision-making and other executive functions: A correlational study. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.1, pp.94-104. ISSN 1806-5821.

The "executive functions" (EF) construct is a set of processes with many components, still insufficiently defined and operationalized. They can be considered, for the participation of emotional processing, "cold" and "hot"components. This study aimed to correlate the construct decision-making (DM), taken as a "hot" EF, as assessed by the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), together with other executive components, assessed by Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WSCT),Trail Making Test (TMT) and Hayling Test. Regarding to the total performance in IGT, the only finding was an inverse correlation with the time score of Hayling's part B. It suggests that speed processing of inhibition can be directly related to an advantageous DM. Inverse correlations were found between the performance on the first block of IGT and the scores of other three EF tests, indicating a different processing in the beginning of this paradigm. It is possible that explicit mechanisms more necessary in other executive tasks might have a negative association with the performance in the earlier sections of the IGT, in which implicit and emotional processing is privileged. Studies about the relationship between the IGT's main construct and other "hot" EF should be conducted. © Cien. Cogn. 2012; Vol. 17 (1): 094-104.

Palabras clave : executive functions; Iowa Gambling Task; decision making; cognitive flexibility; inhibition.

        · resumen en Portugués     · texto en Portugués     · Portugués ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License Todo el contenido de esta revista, excepto dónde está identificado, está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons