Table 3A.
Effects of treatment on attention, inhibition, and switching.
Testing 1 | Testing 2* | Testing 3** | Testing 4*** | |
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Selective and sustained attention (Bells, Italian norms in Biancardi and Stoppa, 1997) analyzed with standard scores (chronological age norms) | ||||
Number of targets identified in the first 30 s | −1.5 | −0.46 | −0.52 | 0.46 |
Number of targets identified in 240 s | −4.5 | −1.59 | −0.15 | −0.31 |
Inhibition (Korkman et al., 2007) analyzed with percentile ranks and standard scores (chronological age norms) | ||||
Errors—Percentile ranks | < 2 (raw score: 7) | < 2 (raw score: 8) | >75 (raw score: 0) | >75 (raw score: 0) |
Completion time—Standard scores | −2.6 (raw score: 106) | −2 (raw score: 81) | −1.33 (raw score: 70) | −1.33 (raw score: 69) |
Switching (Korkman et al., 2007) analyzed with percentile ranks and standard scores (chronological age norms) | ||||
Errors—Percentile ranks | < 2 (raw score: 46) | < 2 (raw score: 26) | < 2 (raw score: 13) | Between the 11th and the 25th percentile rank (raw score: 9) |
Completion time—Standardized scores | 1.33 (raw score: 59) | −2 (raw score: 118) | −2.6 (raw score: 175) | −2.6 (raw score: 157) |
After 10 weeks of home treatment with Feuerstein activities;
after 10 weeks of the cognitive training program added to the home treatment;
after further 10 weeks of the cognitive training added to the home treatment.