The socio-affective stimuli received in childhood are essential to develop reading skills. The objective of this research is to investigate impact vectors of attentional networks developed in contexts of social vulnerability, as cognitive predictors of reading comprehension. The methodology contemplates a non-experimental design of a randomized group with two distributions applied to 30 children from 4th and 5th grade of basic education (N=60). The neuropsychological evaluation consisted of subtests of three instruments such as: WISC-V, TMT and ENI. The statistical analysis indicated that there are no significant differences (U >0.05) between the evaluated groups, while the modelling showed positive results in the multiple linear regression. Now, the divided attentional network (visual and verbal) has a significant correlation (r = 0.61 and r = 0.40) with the reading comprehension process.
attentional networks
Validez y confiabilidad de la tarea experimental de Redes Atencionales para investigaciones de neuropsicología en el contexto ecuatoriano. Validity and reliability of the experimental task of Attentional Networks for neuropsychological research in the Ecuadorian context
The main experimental tasks in the area of neuroscience and psychology have been performed in industrialized populations, but they have not been developed and adapted in a Latin population. The aim of this study was to validate the attentional networks task in an Ecuadorian sample. For this purpose, a construct validity analysis was carried out through an analysis of variance and correlation between the networks; and a reliability analysis for the global components of the attentional networks.
The results showed main and interaction effects proving construct validity in the population. Likewise, for the interaction validity, a high significant correlation was found between all conditions of the attentional networks. For the reliability analysis, a moderate and high relationship was found for the orientation and cognitive control network, but not for the alertness network.
At the end, the importance of the validation of the experimental tasks in the Latin American population and the clinical relevance in the field of neuropsychology are discussed.
