title: Neuropsychological aspects of 10-year-old children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize neuropsychological aspects of 10-year-old children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Out of 30 children, 26 cognitively normal 10-year-old public school students answered tests extracted from Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children's Revision. The study was transversal. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were carried out.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most of the 10-year-old children retold a story (69.2%), understood it making correct inference (84.6%) and reproduced it adequately in writing (76.9%)--14.9% was the average number of incorrectly written words and 0.179 was the errors per written word coefficient. Besides, 53.8% showed logical thought process and 73.1% had a correct notion of "x more than...". They got five out of eight in the visuo-spatial test, an intermediary result. These results show that the tertiary areas of units II and III are developed in most 10-year-old children. The most frequent types of written mistakes were: oral influence (26.3%), multiple representation (22.5%) and omission (18.4%). As to coding principles, the mostly uncomplied with rule was vowel nasalization at end of syllable (23,53%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ten-year-old children in the studied population understood and reproduced a story orally and in writing with a low coefficient error/word. The majority completed the visuospatial tests and presented logical thought process. When "x more than..." notion is absent it may be an indicator that all is not well in the reading/writing process.
authors: Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors: Ellen
authors: E
authors: Osborn
authors: Liliane Desgualdo
authors: LD
authors: Pereira
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D032882:Comprehension; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008182:Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D002666:Psychology, Child / Q000379:methods*; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D013028:Space Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing