Juliana Burges Sbicigo

Universidade La Salle · Psicologia

Neuropsychology is an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship among cognition, behavior, emotions and the brain, based on structure–function correlation models developed in the last 150 years. This study presents a discussion concerning the anatomo-clinical method in neuropsychology considering theoretical-methodological advancements...

The aim of this study was to develop a short version of the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire (MIA) in Brazilian Portuguese. The original MIA is an instrument in english composed by 108 items, divided into seven dimensions of metamemory (Strategy, Task, Capacity, Change, Anxiety, Achievement and Locus). Despite of being widely used, the extensi...

Various discussions have centered on whether and how socioeconomic status and stress are associated with neurocognitive function in different stages of development. Reviews have been conducted focusing on only part of these relationships (SES and stress or SES and neurocognition). The aim of the present study was to review investigations that exami...

The aim of the present study was to review the tasks that have been used to assess the functioning of the episodic buffer in Baddeley’s multicomponent model of working memory. A systematic review of studies published from January 2000 to February 2013 was conducted. The search term “episodic buffer” was used in the Web of Knowledge, PsycINFO, PubMe...

This study investigated associations of contextual variables of risk (stressful events and exposure to community violence), variables of protection (family environment, connectivity to the school and community perceptions) and demographic variables (gender and age) with indicators of psychosocial adjustment (self-esteem, involvement in illegal acti...

We aimed to investigate the effects of phonological awareness – PA, rapid automatised naming – RAN, visuospatial and verbal working memory – WM and executive functions – EF on the reading and arithmetic skills of children with low- to medium-performance levels. Participants were 472 Brazilian children from 3rd to 5th grades. Quantile Regression Ana...

The goal of this study was to investigate if the selection of external information for storage in visual working memory requires control by the central executive when the categorization of targets is guided by instructions. The design was experimental 3 (concurrent task) x 2 (instruction). Forty-eight university students saw eight colored shapes, f...

Some children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience the loss of previously acquired abilities, especially that of using words, a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate parents’ perceptions of the age of word acquisition and word loss in individuals with ASD as compared to children with Down Syndrome (DS...

Identification of signs of ASD and diagnosis require the use of tests with diverse sources of validity evidence. The aim of this study was to gather validity evidence for the PROTEA-R-NV based on: a) criteria variables and b) convergent validity with the M-CHAT. A mixed method design was performed (comparative and correlational groups). In the comp...

The Common Sense Model refers to the association between disease perception and health behaviors. This study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire for Healthy People-(IPQ-RH) in healthy women about breast cancer. A total of 321 women participated, with a mean age of 55.72 years old (SD = 10.75)...

Burnout syndrome may affect primary health care (PHC) workers. The objective of this study was to investigate the association of empathy and occupational stress with the Burnout of PHC professionals. 348 workers responded to an online assessment including occupational stress, empathy and burnout scales. The empathy dimensions empathic concern and p...

The broader autism phenotype (BAP) has been defined as subclinical traits that configure the phenotypic expression of genetic susceptibility to the development of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The literature has pointed to the relationship between communicative-pragmatic skills and autism. However, there is controversy as to whether these skill...

This study searched for sociodemographic influences on visual memory and visuoconstructive ability in healthy and clinical samples evaluated with Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) in two studies. In Study 1, we searched for changes related to age in children, adolescents, adults and elderly on the performance of the BVRT. In Study 2, we investiga...

Introduction Children with anxiety disorders have been suggested to possess deficits in verbal fluency, shifting and attention, with inconsistent results regarding working memory and its subcomponents. This study extends previous findings by analyzing the performance of children with anxiety disorders in a wide range of neuropsychological functions...

Anticipated HIV stigma refers to expectations held by individuals regarding social rejection, prejudice, and discrimination if they were ever to be infected by HIV. Much of the prior work on the impact of this anticipated stigma on HIV testing focus on men who have sex with men and transgender women populations, suggesting that higher levels of ant...

The aim of this research was to know the factors associated with teen dating violence and victimization because violence in teenagers' relationships is increasing in recent years, constituting a serious social problem. For this purpose, we analyzed teen dating violence and explored the variables (sexist attitudes, personal adjustment, clinical mala...

O presente artigo tem por objetivo investigar possíveis efeitos da atenção dividida no priming de repetição a partir de uma revisão seletiva da literatura. Foram selecionados estudos realizados com testes de priming perceptual e/ou conceitual, nos quais a divisão da atenção foi realizada na fase de codificação ou de recuperação. Em geral, as evidên...

Investigaram-se evidências de validade de construto do Teste de Retenção Visual de Benton (BVRT) em pacientes após Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC). Participaram 42 adultos e idosos, 21 com AVC (11 com Lesão em Hemisfério Esquerdo – LHE, 10 com Lesão em Hemisfério Direito - LHD), e 21 controles neurologicamente saudáveis, emparelhados aos pacientes...

The present systematic review aims to address the contribution of brain imaging studies to the investigation of semantic priming (SP). Only studies from 2001 to 2017 using lexical decision tasks with visual and auditory stimuli, were considered. The review resulted in 20 articles, which showed semantic priming effects (SPE) in several brain areas (...

This study compared the performance of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Reading Disabilities (RD) in the Raven's Colored Progressive Matrix Test (RCPM). A total of 70 children and adolescents aged 7 to 14 years, with ASD (n=16), with RD (n=19) and with typical development (TD, n=35) participated. Controlling the effe...

RESUMO: Este estudo teve como objetivo realizar a tradução e a adaptação transcultural do Inventário de Lazer Sério – SLIM (Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure) e investigar evidências iniciais de validade de construto (confiabilidade e estrutura interna). Participaram 361 universitários (63% de mulheres), com idades entre 18 e 26 anos. A análise...

Psicologia Cognitiva: Modelos, Teorias e Aplicações

The aim of this study was to explore the role of attention in nonverbal perceptual implicit memory (priming) and verbal perceptual and conceptual tests, comparing with equivalent tests of explicit memory. We hypothesized that perceptual priming would be immune to the effects of divided attention during retrieval, while conceptual priming and explic...

The priming experimental paradigm sheds light on different aspects of memory processes and has several applications. Priming is an implicit memory effect, in which there is no conscious retrieval information recently experienced. In Brazil, very few studies using this methodology comparing to the international literature is observed. Aiming to enco...

The aim of this study was to verify which components of the working memory (WM) model (phonological, visuospatial and central executive) predict the performance in fluid intelligence (FI), considering age, schooling and school type. The participants were 419 children aged between six and 12 years old, from the first year to the sixth grade of Prima...

Examinou-se a estrutura interna do Instrumento de Avaliação Neuropsicológica Breve Infantil – NEUPSILIN-Inf através de Análise Fatorial Confirmatória (AFC). Participaram do estudo 840 crianças (421 da cidade de São Paulo, 419 de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul), com idades entre seis e 12 anos (M=8,98, DP=1,98), entre a primeira e a sexta série do...

This study aimed to systematize evidences about the socioeconomic status (SES) in the development of executive functions (EF) tasks. The search for articles, from 2000 to 2011, was carried out in the following databases: ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PsycINFO, Pubmed, Science Direct, EBSCOand BVS-PSI. Nineteen articles were selected based on previo...

This study aimed to systematize evidences about the socioeconomic status (SES) in the development of executive functions (EF) tasks. The search for articles, from 2000 to 2011, was carried out in the following databases: ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PsycINFO, Pubmed, Science Direct, EBSCOand BVS-PSI. Nineteen articles were selected based on previo...

This study aimed to systematize evidences about the socioeconomic status (SES) in the development of executive functions (EF) tasks. The search for articles, from 2000 to 2011, was carried out in the following databases: ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PsycINFO, Pubmed, Science Direct, EBSCOand BVS-PSI. Nineteen articles were selected based on previo...

The association between quality of family relationships and psychological adjustment has been understudied in the literature. This study tested the predictive relationship between family environment (measured by the dimensions of cohesion, hierarchy, support and conflict) and indicators of psychological adjustment (self-esteem, general self-efficac...

This study examined the psychometric properties of the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) in a sample of adolescents from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Participants were 1.007 students (60.5% girls) aged between 12 and 18 years, coming from public schools. According to expectations, results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, using indepe...

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometrics properties of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSS) for adolescents. The sample was composed of 4.757 adolescents, with ages between 14 and 18 years old (M=15.77; SD=1.22) in nine Brazilian cities. Participants responded to an adapted version of the RSS for Brazil. Exploratory factorial ana...

1 Psicóloga, formada pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Mestranda em Psicologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) 2 Doutora e mestre em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Professora do Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica...

The present research aimed to investigate the association between social skills and marital satisfaction. 25 couples (n=50), ages between 23 e 69 years-old were interviewed. The total time of union varied from seven to 40 years. The participants answered Marital Satisfaction Scale and Multidimensional Social Expression Scale - Cognitive part. Infer...