Impact of a combined cognitive and response inhibition training in school-age children Aydmune, Yesica Lipina, Sebastián López Ramón, María Fernanda Introzzi, Isabel Training Cognitive inhibition Response inhibition Transfer School Entrenamiento Inhibición cognitiva Inhibición de la respuesta Transferencia Escolares The work was carried out thanks to funding from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, through an Internal Postdoctoral Fellowship, resolution: RESOL-2018-2703-APNDIR#CONICET, dated December 28, 2018. Period: 04/19-03/21. Grant awarded to Yesica Aydmune; director: Dr. Isabel Introzzi; co-director: Dr. Sebastian Lipina. Topic: "Training of behavioral inhibition and cognitive inhibition during early elementary school years." The authors thank Valeria Aydmune for the design of the training task characters and screens. The aims of this work were: (1) to implement a brief 6 sessions intervention, which combines training activities of Cognitive Inhibition (CI) and Response Inhibition (RI), in a group of schoolchildren aged from 6 to 8 years (M = 6.8, SD = .61; n = 38; 60.5% girls, 39.5% boys); (2) to analyze the effects of the intervention on training tasks performances, on untraining inhibitory tasks (near transfer) and on performance in a FI task (far transfer); and (3) to study individual differences in training effects associated with baseline inhibitory performance. An experimental design, pre-test, post-test and control group (CG), was implemented. The main results indicate an improvement in performance in trained tasks-differences between first and last session: CI training Z = -3.455, p = .001; RI training Z = -3.758, p < .001-, low effects of the intervention on performance in an untrained CI task-experimental group (EG), difference pre/post-test performance: F(1,16) = 3.893, p = .066, np2 = .196- and effects on performance in the FI task-F(1,36) = 6.484, p = .015, np2 = .153. In the first two cases, it was observed that the students with a lower base line inhibitory performance, showed greater profits -CI training, r = -.524, p = .031; RI training, r = -.470, p = .057; untrained CI task, r = .755, p = .001. We discussed the transfer based processing on short interventions and the use of different tasks measurements. Los objetivos de este trabajo fueron: (1) implementar una intervención breve de 6 sesiones, que combina actividades de entrenamiento de la inhibición cognitiva y de la respuesta, en un grupo de escolares de 6 a 8 años de edad (M = 6.8, DE = .61; n = 38; niñas = 60.5%, niños = 39.5%); (2) analizar los efectos de la intervención sobre el rendimiento en las tareas entrenadas, en tareas inhibitorias no entrenadas (transferencia cercana), y sobre el desempeño en una tarea de inteligencia fluida (transferencia lejana); y (3) estudiar las diferencias individuales en los efectos del entrenamiento asociadas con el rendimiento inhibitorio de base. Se implementó un diseño experimental con pre-test, post-test y grupo control. Los principales resultados indican un avance en el desempeño en las tareas de entrenamiento -diferencias entre primera y última sesión: entrenamiento de inhibición cognitiva, Z = -3.455, p = .001; entrenamiento de inhibición de la respuesta, Z = -3.758, p < .001- efectos bajos de la intervención sobre el desempeño en una tarea de inhibición cognitiva no entrenada – diferencias de rendimiento pre/post-test en el grupo experimental grupo experimental: F(1,16) = 3.893, p = .066, np2 = .196-, y efectos sobre el rendimiento en la tarea de inteligencia fluida - F(1,36) = 6.484, p = .015, np2 = .153. En los dos primeros casos se observó que los escolares con un rendimiento inhibitorio de base más bajo, presentaron mayores ganancias -entrenamiento de inhibición cognitiva, r = -.524, p = .031; entrenamiento de inhibición de la respuesta r = -.470, p = .057; tarea no entrenada de inhibición cognitiva, r = .755, p = .001. Se discute en torno a los alcances de la transferencia a partir de intervenciones breves y del empleo de distintas tareas de medición. 2021-06-22T10:09:38Z 2021-06-22T10:09:38Z 2021-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Aydmune, Y... [et al.] (2021). Impact of a combined cognitive and response inhibition training in school-age children. Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes, 8(2), 3. doi: [10.21134/rpcna.2021.08.2.4] 2340-8340 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69331 10.21134/rpcna.2021.08.2.4 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Universidad Miguel Hernández