Performance of a Brazilian sample on the computerized Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

• Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Luzia Flavia [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Rosario-Campos, Maria Conceicao do [UNIFESP], Mastrorosa, Rosana Savio [UNIFESP], Miranda, Mônica Carolina [UNIFESP], Bueno, Orlando Francisco Amodeo [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/7415; http://dx.doi.org/10.3922/j.psns.2012.2.04
• topic: computerized Wisconsin Card Sorting Test; normative data; Children; adolescents; executive functions

The computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is based on the same normative data developed previously for the manual version. However, equivalence of the measures of both versions is controversial. This study investigated the performance of a Brazilian student sample with subjects aged 6-15 years in the computerized version of the WCST. As a result of the analyses, the study pointed out that type of school (public or private) was significant in almost all measures and also that age and gender effects were similar to those previously described in the manual version. These results showed that the computerized WCST may not be free of cultural and socioeconomic influences and that the validation and standardization of this version is warranted.