Neuropsychology
Lila Noshad; Ami Azizi
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Background:The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of neurofeedback on continuous attention, working memory and visual - motor perception in primary school students with specific learning disorder. Methods: The current study was an experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with ...
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Background:The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of neurofeedback on continuous attention, working memory and visual - motor perception in primary school students with specific learning disorder. Methods: The current study was an experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all primary school students in Tabriz city, among them, 30 people diagnosed with learning disorders in Tabriz learning disorders centers were selected by purposive sampling method and using randomly were replaced into experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). In all two groups of N-back, continuous performance test and visual perception -motor Bender-Gestalt as pretest and post-test completion. Neurofeedback was performed in the experimental group for 20 sessions of 30-45 minutes (3 times a week for seven weeks) and the control group received no interventions. Data were analyzed by using multivariate covariance analysis in SPSS.20. Results: There is only a significant difference between the average pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental and control groups in the variables of continuous attention (p=0.001) and visual-motor perception (p=0.001). This means that neurofeedback training was effective in improving continuous attention, working memory and visual-motor perception. Conclusion: The use of neurofeedback is recommended in improving continuous attention and visual-motor perception in elementary school students with special learning disorders.
Amir Azizi; Fazlullah Mir Drikvand; Mohammad Ali Sepahvani
Volume 3, Issue 8 , June 2017, , Pages 103-118
Abstract
Introduction: The weakness of visual perception skills, is one of the causes of specific learning disability. Cognitive rehabilitation, and cognitive - behavioral play therapy, neurofeedback intervention training common in people with learning disability is special. The aim of this study was to compare ...
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Introduction: The weakness of visual perception skills, is one of the causes of specific learning disability. Cognitive rehabilitation, and cognitive - behavioral play therapy, neurofeedback intervention training common in people with learning disability is special. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of cognitive rehabilitation, cognitive - behavioral play therapy, neurofeedback and on visual - motor perception in primary school students with specific learning disability. Method: This study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest control group. The study population consisted of all elementary school students, who with diagnosis of learning disabilities in learning centers in Tabriz 2016-2017 had received the interventions were necessary. A sample of the target population purposive sampling, 60 students were selected and using randomly into three experimental groups and one control group (n = 15 per group) were replaced. In all four groups of visual perception - motor Bender-Gestalt as pre-completion and after 20 sessions of cognitive rehabilitation, 20 neurofeedback sessions and 8 sessions of cognitive - behavioral play therapy re-test was performed for each of the four groups. Data using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics such as Multivariate regression analysis and analysis of variance Mixed were analyzed software SPSS.20. Findings: The results of the multivariate regression analysis showed that cognitive rehabilitation training, neurofeedback and cognitive - behavioral play therapy on visual perception - motor elementary students with specific learning disorder, affects (PConclusion: It seems that the use of cognitive rehabilitation training, neurofeedback and cognitive - behavioral play therapy shared equally in improved visual perception - motor, elementary students with learning disabilities in particular, can be used.
