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Between Shifting and Feedback Processing in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in Children with Developmental Language

Kristina Giandomenico¹, Lauren S Baron¹, Asiya Gul¹

¹MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA 02129, USA.

|August 26, 2023

Summary

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Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) struggle with executive functions, particularly rule-shifting and feedback processing. This impacts their ability to learn and maintain rules effectively.

Keywords:

WCST developmental language disorder event-related potentials executive function feedback processing set shifting

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Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Science

Background:

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often exhibit executive functioning deficits.
Specific executive function components affected in DLD require further elucidation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate set-shifting and feedback processing in children with DLD using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST).
To compare behavioral and electrophysiological responses between children with and without DLD.

Main Methods:

Administered the WCST to 24 children with and without DLD.
Collected behavioral data on accuracy, rule shifts, and feedback responses.
Utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to analyze electrophysiological responses to feedback.

Main Results:

Children with DLD showed poorer performance in accuracy, rule shifting, and feedback processing.
DLD group exhibited altered processing of negative feedback, with a trend to interpret shift cues as negative feedback.
Group differences observed in processing positive feedback, with DLD group showing stronger initial responses.

Conclusions:

Children with DLD demonstrate inefficient negative feedback processing during rule-shifting tasks.
Difficulties in establishing and maintaining rules are characteristic of DLD.
Findings highlight executive function challenges in DLD, impacting cognitive flexibility and learning.