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      <dc:title>Association between salivary alpha-amylase and executive functioning in healthy children. The spanish journal of psychology</dc:title>
      <dc:creator>López Rojas, Cristina</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>children</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>executive funtioning</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>saliva</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>alpha-amylase</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>ENFEN</dc:subject>
      <dc:description>The main aim of this study was to confirm the relationship between executive performance and salivary&#xd;
alpha-amylase (SAA) activity in a sample of 64 healthy children (39 boys), and compare it to the association of SAA&#xd;
output and salivary flow rate (SFR). Executive functioning was assessed via fluency, trail-making, rings and inhibition&#xd;
tasks from the Batería de Evaluación Neuropsicológica de la Función Ejecutiva en Niños [Battery of Neuropsychological&#xd;
Assessment for Executive Function in Children] (ENFEN), merged into an ENFEN total score. SAA activity, output, and&#xd;
SFR were measured at baseline, one minute before, and one minute after the end of a neuropsychological testing session.&#xd;
Our results confirmed a direct, linear and significant association between SAA activity and executive functioning, r(64)&#xd;
= .351, p &lt; .05, and extended it to SAA output, r(64) =.431, p &lt; .05. The mean level of SAA output was the best predictor&#xd;
of executive functioning (β = .431, p &lt; .05) and explained 18.2 % of the variance in ENFEN total score. In sum, and compared&#xd;
to SAA activity, measuring SAA output may be a more precise and indirect marker to assess executive functioning&#xd;
in children.</dc:description>
      <dc:date>2025-01-30T12:20:03Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2025-01-30T12:20:03Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2019-05-14</dc:date>
      <dc:type>journal article</dc:type>
      <dc:identifier>Maldonado, E., Nislin, M., Marín, L., Martín-Escribano, A., Enguix, A., López, C., Magarín, A., Alamo, A., Ortiz, P., Muñoz, M., &amp; García, S. (2019). Association between Salivary Alpha-Amylase and Executive Functioning in Healthy Children. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 22, E24. https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2019.26</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/10481/101341</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2019.26</dc:identifier>
      <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
      <dc:rights>open access</dc:rights>
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