Funcionamiento de las redes atencionales en la adultez joven y el nivel de educación

Abstract

The aim of this study was to observe the effect of the variables educational level and young adulthood on the attentional networks task. Fifty-eight people from the general population were divided into groups of students and non-students, and in emerging and early adulthood, with whom an experimental design was carried out, using the Attentional Networks task as the main paradigm. The results showed that the student and non-student groups did not differ in performance in any of the network conditions, but regarding the young adulthood variable, there was an interaction effect between the type of adulthood and the orienting network, with the emerging adult group being faster than the early adult group. In addition a correlational analysis showed that age was moderately and positively correlated with reaction time for all attentional task conditions. In the end, the importance of higher education level and young adulthood on the functioning of attentional networks in the field of differential psychology is discussed, and the implications of these results in the clinical setting are mentioned.

Keywords:

attentional networks age-related difference education

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