McInerney Robert J, Hrabok Marianne, Kerns Kimberly A
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2005 Aug;27(6):735-45. doi: 10.1081/13803390490918633.
We present a new measure of nonverbal working memory for children, entitled the Children's Size-Ordering Task (CSOT). Two separate studies were conducted to test the utility of and partially validate this measure. Three specific hypotheses were investigated, namely that: (1) CSOT performance would correlate with age; (2) the CSOT would correlate with established measures of working memory; and (3) children with ADHD would exhibit weaker performance on the CSOT relative to typically developing community control children. Participants across both studies included 50 children with ADHD and 50 control children matched by age and gender. Collectively, the results of both studies supported all three hypotheses. These findings lend support to the CSOT as a valid and effective measure of nonverbal working memory.
我们提出了一种针对儿童的非言语工作记忆的新测量方法，名为儿童大小排序任务（CSOT）。我们进行了两项独立研究来测试该测量方法的效用并对其进行部分验证。我们调查了三个具体假设，即：（1）CSOT表现与年龄相关；（2）CSOT将与既定的工作记忆测量方法相关；（3）与发育正常的社区对照儿童相比，患有注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）的儿童在CSOT上的表现会较弱。两项研究的参与者包括50名患有ADHD的儿童和50名按年龄和性别匹配的对照儿童。总体而言，两项研究的结果均支持所有三个假设。这些发现支持了CSOT作为一种有效且可靠的非言语工作记忆测量方法。
