Executive attention and personality variables in patients with frontal lobe damage

  1. Rodríguez Bailón, Rosa María 1
  2. Triviño Mosquera, Mónica 1
  3. Lupiáñez Castillo, Juan 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Año de publicación: 2012

Volumen: 15

Número: 3

Páginas: 967-977

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5209/REV_SJOP.2012.V15.N3.39388 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

Resumen

El sistema de control ejecutivo es requerido para resolver situaciones novedosas o que requieren de una planificación para su ejecución. Este estudio tiene como objetivo poner de manifiesto el déficit atencional ejecutivo específico que se presenta en pacientes con lesión cerebral frontal. Para ello, se administró la tarea ANT-I (Attention Network Test-Interactions), que mide las tres redes atencionales propuestas por Posner y Dehaene (1994) y las interacciones entre ellas, por primera vez, a un grupo de 9 pacientes con daño frontal tras traumatismo craneoencefálico (TCE) y a un grupo control emparejado. Los resultados mostraron que no hay diferencias significativas entre ambos grupos en las redes de alerta y de orientación. Sin embargo, sí se encontró un efecto significativo de grupo en la red de control ejecutivo. Añadido a este resultado, se analizó la personalidad de los pacientes y se observó que el trastorno de personalidad límite correlacionaba positivamente con el índice de control ejecutivo. Estos datos sugieren que el daño en la corteza prefrontal produce una alteración exclusiva en la resolución de conflicto y que esto se relaciona con variables de personalidad caracterizadas por una ausencia de control conductual. No obstante, se requiere más investigación para estudiar esta relación causal.

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The present research was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación through a PhD research fellowship awarded to the first author (FPI BES-2009-020741) and a research project awarded to the other two authors (PSI2008-03595PSIC).

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