Age Differences in Memory for Item-Identity and Occupied-Location Information

Siemens, Loneta; Guttentag, Robert E.; McIntyre, Margaret

doi:10.2307/1423116

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“…On the other hand, as previously mentioned, there are a number of contradictory results with regards to a developmental enhancement in memory for spatial location per se. The significant age effect found in the present study in the position only condition is in agreement with previous data showing that location memory is consistently affected by age (Puglisi et al, 1985;Siemens et al 1989), with older children performing better than younger ones (Postma et al, 2001;Rossi-Arnaud et al, 1999). The latter findings argue against the view that occupied-location information is encoded automatically (Hasher and Zacks, 1979).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…The clear age effect found in the object-to-position condition is in agreement with the literature which suggests an improvement with age in memory for object-location associations (Postma et al, 2001;Siemens et al, 1989;Schumann-Hengsteler, 1992). On the other hand, as previously mentioned, there are a number of contradictory results with regards to a developmental enhancement in memory for spatial location per se.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Further, the significant correlations found in each task between subjects' age and performance provide clear evidence of a developmental trend. Age effects in the object-position assignment process are in agreement with the literature, which suggests an improvement with age in memory for object-position associations (Postma et al, 2001;Schumann-Hengsteler, 1992;Siemens et al, 1989). On the other hand, as previously mentioned, there are a number of contradictory results with regards to a developmental enhancement in memory for spatial positions per se.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The results of their second experiment indicate that there was a developmental improvement in memory for spatial location in children of 5 and 7 years of age. Other studies have also found this developmental improvement for tasks in which different objects have to be linked to different locations (Siemens, Guttentag andMcIntyre, 1989, Rossi-Arnaud Alfano, Longoni, 1999).…”

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Memory for object location: A span study in children.

Cestari

Lucidi²,

Pieroni³

et al. 2007

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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A number of studies suggest that object location memory might depend upon a variety of component processes, namely remembering which locations in space were occupied and remembering the identity of the objects that occupied each location. The aim of the present experiment was to analyse, using a span procedure, the development of spatial memory in three experimental conditions: positional reconstruction, objectlocation binding, and the integration of these two in the combined condition. A total of 160 children aged 6, 8 and 10 years were tested. The findings of the present study provide developmental spans in each relocation condition. Results also show an age dependent improvement in all conditions, showing that spatial location is not automatically encoded and different developmental patterns for each of the relocation conditions considered, suggesting that spatial memory does comprise a number of different component processes.

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confidence: 93%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 75%

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Memory for object location: A span study in children.

Cestari

Lucidi²,

Pieroni³

et al. 2007

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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“…In general, studies of verbal spans (i.e., digit, word, and letter spans) have shown that developmental improvement follows a negatively accelerated trajectory (Dempster, 1981). Although there has been relatively little exploration of memory span for exclusively visuospatial information, it appears to undergo a similar developmental trend (Siemens, Guttentag, & Mclntyre, 1989, Experiment 2; Wilson, Scott, & Power, 1987).…”

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Verbal and spatial working memory in school-age children: Developmental differences in susceptibility to interference.

Hale¹,

Bronik²,

Fry³

1997

Developmental Psychology

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The development of verbal and spatial working memory was investigated with an interference paradigm. Memory spans were obtained from 3 groups (8-, 10-, and 19-year-olds) under 6 different conditions: Two primary memory tasks (1 verbal, 1 spatial) were administered in isolation and in conjunction with 2 versions of a secondary task. The primary tasks required recalling a series of visually presented digits and recalling the locations of Xs in a series of visually presented grids. The secondary tasks required reporting the color of the stimuli as they were presented using either a verbal or a spatial response. Analyses revealed that all age groups showed domain-specific interference (i.e., interference by a secondary task from the same domain as the primary task), but only die 8year-olds also showed nonspecific interference (i.e., interference by a secondary task from a domain different than the primary memory task), suggesting that at least some executive functions do not reach adult levels of efficiency until approximately age 10.

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The Role of Working Memory in Implicit Memory: A Developmental Perspective

Yang¹,

Chen

et al. 2020

Cognitive Development

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Age Differences in Memory for Item-Identity and Occupied-Location Information

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Memory for object location: A span study in children.

Memory for object location: A span study in children.

Verbal and spatial working memory in school-age children: Developmental differences in susceptibility to interference.

The Role of Working Memory in Implicit Memory: A Developmental Perspective

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