Automatic and Controlled Attentional Processes in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment The Use of a Mini-Verbal Test英文文献资料.docVIP

Psychology 2012. Vol.3, No.5, 379-383 Published Online May 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/psych) /10.4236/psych.2012.35053 Automatic and Controlled Attentional Processes in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Use of a Mini-Verbal Test Jonas Jardim de Paula 1 , Danielle de Souza Costa , Edgar Nunes de Moraes , 1 2 , Leandro Fernandes Malloy-Diniz 1,3 Rodrigo Nicolato , Manuel Sedó 3 4 1 Neuropsychological Investigations Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2 Internal Medicine Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 3 Mental Health Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 4 Mini-Verbal Tests, Boston, US Email: jonasjardim@ Received December 19 , 2011; revised January 20 , 2012; accepted February 23 , 2012 th th rd Recent finding suggests that in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) executive functions deficits may be a frequent clinical finding. Automatic and Controlled attentional processes are related to the allo- cation of cognitive resources in different stimuli, being important to executive functioning. The present study aims at assessing the hypothesis of executive dysfunction deficits in MCI patients. Method: forty five MCI patients and forty five normal aging controls (NC) were assessed with the Five Digits Test (5D), a Mini-Verbal test version of the Stroop Test. Group comparisons were performed by t tests and the non-parametric Mann-Whitney test. Results: comparisons indicates significant differences between NC and MCI in efficiency measures of controlled attentional processes, with moderate effect sizes, but not in automatic attentional processes or processing speed. Conclusion: the presen