A Correlational Study Between Executive Functions and Conditional Discriminations in Children with Autism
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Abstract Neuropsychology is a science that allows tracing the profile of cognitive impairments and preserved skills to design appropriate treatments educational practices aiming at better quality life for individual. This basic correlational research, which objective was verify if results found in executive functions children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are predictive or have some correlation performance conditional discrimination through choice tasks according identity matching-to-sample (MTS) model. Correlations revealed significant associations between neuropsychological tests MTS tasks. Future research may further explore assessment intervention individuals ASD.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0102-3772', '1806-9770', '1806-3446']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/0102.3772e39203.en