Verbal and visual memory performances of children with moderate-into-severe asthma

• Authors: Haitham Taha , Mahmood Khalil

Abstracts

EN

Previous research reported about high comorbidity between asthma and neurodevelopmental disorders. Recently, asthma was associated also with executive functions poorness. The current study aimed to investigate the verbal and visual memory performances among fifteen asthmatic kindergarten children compared to the performances of other fifteen healthy kindergarten children. The results showed that the asthmatic group revealed poor performances in the immediate short term verbal memory and the verbal working memory tests but not in the verbal learning test as it was compared to the healthy group. In addition, the asthmatic group revealed poor performances in the visual memory tasks compared to the healthy group. The results were explained in light of the assumption that poor executive functions might be interfere the process of managing the attentional resources which are needed through the process of memory encoding and retrieval.

Keywords

EN

asthma; executive functions; kindergarten; Verbal memory; Visual Memory

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 13-17

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Haitham Taha

author

Mahmood Khalil

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2121682