Geise Jacobsen

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | UFRGS

Recent studies have found associations between parental education and child cognitive abilities. The influence of child age and parental education on executive development is still not well understood, especially on the cognitive processes underlying performance on unconstrained, phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks (VFT). The goal of the pre...

We investigated the role of age and school type on clustering and switching in verbal fluency tasks (VFTs) with Brazilian children. The children were administered unconstrained, phonemic and semantic VFTs with a duration of 150 or 120 s, respectively. Both age and school type influenced all variables and in terms of performance over time. Older chi...

Biological and cultural factors have been found to have a significant influence on cognitive development and performance in neuropsychological instruments such as verbal fluency tasks (VFT). Variations of traditional VFT, involving unconstrained word production and increased retrieval times, may provide further data regarding the executive, attenti...

Neurocognitive assessment involves several different types of processes, techniques and instruments. Traditionally, clinical and/or standardized methods have been the most extensively used in neuropsychological research and clinical practice. Ecological instruments are characterized by the standardized administration of tasks with similar cognitive...

Inhibitory deficits are observed in several neurological and psychiatric disorders, which may increase the frequency of perseverative responses. There are no standard criteria to assess perseveration. The first study aimed to obtain preliminary data on how many blanks until the repetition of a number can be considered a perseveration in Random Numb...

The goal of the present study was to investigate whether parental education and family predict intelligence in a sample of Brazilian children 6-12 years old on two intelligence measures. Four hundred and eighteen children, female or male, from private and public schools of Porto Alegre, were evaluated. One hundred and ninety-three participants were...

The aim of this paper was to identify studies that investigated auditory processing (AP) and language along clinical and/or neuropsychological assessment of children/teenagers with ADHD. We searched on PubMed database from 2000 to 2012 by means of the syntax [language or linguistic] AND [auditory processing or auditory perception] AND [attention de...

The aim of this paper was to identify studies that investigated auditory processing (AP) and language along clinical and/or neuropsychological assessment of children/teenagers with ADHD. We searched on PubMed database from 2000 to 2012 by means of the syntax [language or linguistic] AND [auditory processing or auditory perception] AND [attention de...

Executive functions (EF) is a general term that refers to cognitive processes designed to organize and adapt human behavior in situations that require planning and decision making, problem solving, initiation and inhibition of actions, and adapting to changes. Among the main components of executive processes, we can emphasize the ability to inhibit...