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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

Principles of Integrated Cognitive Training for Executive Attention: Application to an Instrumental Skill.

Francesco Benso, Sandra Moretti, Veronica Bellazzini, Eva Benso, Eleonora Ardu, Simone Gazzellini

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Francesco BensoDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Sandra MorettiANCCRI, Associazione Neuroscienze Cognitive Clinica Ricerca e Intervento, Genova, Italy.
Veronica BellazziniANCCRI, Associazione Neuroscienze Cognitive Clinica Ricerca e Intervento, Genova, Italy.
Eva BensoANCCRI, Associazione Neuroscienze Cognitive Clinica Ricerca e Intervento, Genova, Italy.
Eleonora ArduANCCRI, Associazione Neuroscienze Cognitive Clinica Ricerca e Intervento, Genova, Italy.
Simone GazzelliniDepartment of Intensive and Robotic Neurorehabilitation, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital Institute of Recovery and Care Caracterized by Research, Rome, Italy.
ASL Roma · ITBambino Gesù Children's Hospital · ITUniversity of Trento · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One effective cognitive treatment is the rehabilitation of working memory (WM) using an integrated approach that targets the "executive attention" system. Recent neuroscientific literature has revealed that treatment efficacy depends on the presence of various features, such as adaptivity, empathy, customization, avoidance of automatism and stereotypies, and alertness activation. Over the last two decades, an Integrated Cognitive Training (ICT) protocol has been proposed and developed; ICT takes the above-mentioned features and existing literature into account, and has been used to promote the development of reading skills. ICT has been employed in several clinical settings and involves stimulation of a specific deteriorated system (e.g., reading) and the improvement of executive attention components, thus also increasing working memory capacity. In this context, we present two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants diagnosed with dyslexia (aged between 8 and 14 years) underwent two ICT sessions a week, with home supplements, for a duration of 7 months. The participants showed a significant improvement in the reading speed of text, words, and non-words, and in the reading accuracy of text and non-words. In Experiment 2, we replicated Experiment 1, but included a comparison between two groups (experimental group vs. control group) of young participants with diagnosis of dyslexia. The experimental group was subjected to 18 ICT sessions twice a week and with home supplements, using the same protocol as in Experiment 1. The control group was entrusted to the protocol of compensatory tools and dispense/helping procedures provided by the scholastic Personalized Educational Plan. After training, the experimental group gained about 0.5 syllables per second in text reading, and a marked decrease in error rate. The control group showed no significant improvement in reading skills after the same period. Moreover, the improvement observed in the experimental group remained stable 4 months after ICT had ended. The results of these two experiments support the efficacy of the integrated ICT protocol in improving reading skills in children with dyslexia and its sustained effect.

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adaptive treatmentcognitive trainingdyslexiaexecutive attentionworking memory capacity

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