Study reveals that institutionalized young people have a deficit in soft cognitive abilities

 

This is the case of institutionalized children, like those of Sename or those who have spent time in jail. A study of the Center of Neurosciences of the School of Psychology of the Adolfo Ibáñez University showed that although many of these children obtained relatively normal performances in the «executive functions» such as intelligence, work memory or attention, those that represent cognitive aspects more «Cold», was in the softer aspects where they presented deficits.

Specifically, the research focused on analyzing the moral judgment of these young people by studying how capable they were of recognizing the «intentionality of acts» in other people.

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