Author(s)

Aziz Eloirdi¹, Khaoula Mammad^1*, Amine Arfaoui², Hassan Chtibi¹, Mamadou Ciré Diallo¹, Philippe Wallon³, Ahmed Ahami¹

¹Team Clinical Neuroscience, Cognitive and Health, Laboratory of Biology and Health, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
²Executive Training Royal Institute of Youth and Sports, Salé, Morocco.
³INSERM Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse, Paris, France.

Visual Perception and working memory are essential neuropsychological skills for any learning. The objective of this research is to study these skills, by analyzing numerical plots, according to gender, age, level of study and the stream by evaluating perceptive and memory deficits in Moroccan adolescents attending school. Our sample contains 146 high school students, including 78 boys and 68 girls participated in this study and we used the numerical version of The Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test (ROCF-A) to assess visual perception and working memory. The results of this study showed that, on the one hand, more than 34% of the subjects examined show signs of perceptual deficit and more 21% show signs of memory deficit and, on the other hand, that the scores of the visual perception are significantly associated with age and that working memory scores are significantly associated with age, level of education, and stream.

Visual Perception, Working Memory, Deficit, ROCF-A

Eloirdi, A. , Mammad, K. , Arfaoui, A. , Chtibi, H. , Diallo, M. , Wallon, P. and Ahami, A. (2018) Study of Visual Perception and Working Memory in Moroccan Adolescents Attending School. Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 7, 82-90. doi: 10.4236/ojmp.2018.74007.