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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2022

A Videogame as a Tool for Clinical Screening of Possible Vulnerability to Impulsivity and Attention Disturbances in Children.

Almudena Serrano-Barroso, Juan Pedro Vargas, Estrella Diaz, Isabel M Gómez-González, Gabriel Ruiz, Juan Carlos López

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Almudena Serrano-BarrosoDepartamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain.
Juan Pedro VargasDepartamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4358-5737
Estrella DiazDepartamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain.
Isabel M Gómez-GonzálezDepartamento de Tecnología Electrónica, ETS Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, 41004 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6041-1480
Gabriel RuizDepartamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain.
Juan Carlos LópezDepartamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8106-5006
Universidad de Sevilla · ES

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion PID2019-110739GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An attention disturbance is a problem that affects many school-aged children. The assessment in children is usually report-based, and as a result, controversy surrounds the diagnosis. To solve this issue, the aim of this study was to develop a new tool to detect possible attention-related problems and impulsive behavior in 4- and 5-year-old children. This tool was developed as an Android app and could be used to provide an early indicator of possible future development problems. A sample of 103 children (48 girls and 55 boys) was randomly selected from primary schools and assessed by Pinky-Piggy, a videogame application based on a classical paradigm in experimental psychology. Data from this app were compared with a Child Neuropsychological Maturity Questionnaire. The subjects displayed different patterns of response to play a very simple game called Pinky-Piggy. The application discriminated between high-responders and low responders. The results showed a relationship between these two profiles and the levels of attention and neurodevelopment in each group. The tool could identify different types of profiles and demonstrated its potential to evaluate endophenotypes to predict attentional problems related to impulsive behavior. Additionally, it required less time and fewer tests to identify possible at-risk populations, thus assisting in clinical diagnosis.

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diagnostic toolendophenotypesvulnerability to cognitive disturbances

Identifiers

PMID36360380
PMCPMC9688645
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