Abstract

AYDMUNE, Yesica; LIPINA, Sebastián  and  INTROZZI, Isabel. Resistance to Interference Distractor: Design and Application of a Training Task for Children. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.1, pp.5-22.  Epub Jan 11, 2021. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2020.1.329.

From the non-unitary perspective of inhibition, resistance to distractor interference is an inhibitory process related to selective attention, has developmental improvements throughout childhood and plays an important role in the children’s performance in multiple activities. This work is aimed to design and administrate a resistance to interference distractor training task for children with typical development, between 6 and 8 years of age (a processes-based computerized flanker task). Also, this work is aimed to analyze the effects of the intervention on trained process and non-trained processes. We recruited children (n= 54) in the first three years of primary-school education. The study consisted of an experimental pre-test, post-test design (resistance to distractor interference, response inhibition and visuospatial working memory were administered), with experimental group (training resistance to distractor interference group) and active control group. After intervention, experimental group performed better in a resistance to distractor interference task. No effects on performance in other tasks were found. These small effects could be explained by the duration and the intensity of the intervention. However, these results contribute to non-unitary perspective about the differentiation of inhibitory processes, especially, to differentiation of resistance to distractor interference and response inhibition, because effects on trained process and absence of transfer to non-trained process were observed.

Keywords : Resistance to Distractor Interference; Training; Children; Inhibitory Processes; Executive Functions.

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