Recognition in a visuospatial memory task: The effect of presentation

Lecerf, Thierry; Ribaupierre, Anik De

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“…The larger the demand on cognitive functioning is, the later performance increases in childhood (Cestari, Lucidi, Pieroni, & Rossi-Arnaud, 2007). Within the visuospatial domain, performance has also been observed to be better when elements are presented simultaneously rather than sequentially (Lecerf & de Ribaupierre, 2005), supporting the existence of sequential and simultaneous presentationdependent processes in visuospatial working memory (Pazzaglia & Cornoldi, 1999). This division has further been confirmed in studies showing that individuals with Williams syndrome performed less well in spatialsimultaneous tasks but equally well in spatial-sequential tasks (Carretti, Lanfranchi, De Mori, Mammarella, & Vianello, 2015).…”

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Performance on tasks of visuospatial memory and ability: A cross-sectional study in 330 adolescents aged 11 to 20

Burggraaf

Frens

Hooge

et al. 2017

Applied Neuropsychology: Child

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Cognitive functions mature at different points in time between birth and adulthood. Of these functions, visuospatial skills, such as spatial memory and part-to-whole organization, have often been tested in children and adults but have been less frequently evaluated during adolescence. We studied visuospatial memory and ability during this critical developmental period, as well as the correlation between these abilities, in a large group of 330 participants (aged 11 to 20 years, 55% male). To assess visuospatial memory, the participants were asked to memorize and reproduce sequences of random locations within a grid using a computer. Visuospatial ability was tested using a variation of the Design Organization Test (DOT). In this paper-and-pencil test, the participants had one minute to reproduce as many visual patterns as possible using a numerical code. On the memory task, compared with younger participants, older participants correctly reproduced more locations overall and longer sequences of locations, made fewer mistakes and needed less time to reproduce the sequences. In the visuospatial ability task, the number of correctly reproduced patterns increased with age. We show that both visuospatial memory and ability improve significantly throughout adolescence and that performance on both tasks is significantly correlated.

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Performance on tasks of visuospatial memory and ability: A cross-sectional study in 330 adolescents aged 11 to 20

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Hooge

et al. 2017

Applied Neuropsychology: Child

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“…Two tasks were used for WM assessment: one verbal (the reading span test, RSpan; de Ribaupierre & Bailleux, 1995;de Ribaupierre, Ghisletta, & Lecerf, 2006;Robert, Borella, Fagot, Lecerf, & de Ribaupierre, 2009, adapted from Daneman & Carpenter, 1980 and one visuospatial (the matrices task; de Ribaupierre et al, 2006;Lecerf & de Ribaupierre, 2005). Each task contained two phases: (a)span assessment and (b)administration of ten trials at span level and administration of ten trials at span+1 level.…”

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Working memory and intraindividual variability in processing speed: A lifespan developmental and individual-differences study

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Working memory (WM) and intraindividual variability (IIV) in processing speed are both hypothesized to reflect general attentional processes. In the present study, we aimed at exploring the relationship between WM capacity and IIV in reaction times (RTs) and its possible variation with development across the lifespan. Two WM tasks and six RT tasks of varying complexity were analyzed in a sample of 539 participants, consisting of five age groups: two groups of children (9-10 and 11-12 years of age), one group of young adults, and two groups of older adults (59-69 and 70-89 years of age). Two approaches were adopted. First, low-span and high-span individuals were identified, and analyses of variance were conducted comparing these two groups within each age group and for each RT task. The results consistently showed a span effect in the youngest children and oldest adults: High-span individuals were significantly faster and less variable than low-span individuals. In contrast, in young adults no difference was observed between high-and lowspan individuals, whether in terms of their means or IIV. Second, multivariate analyses were conducted on the entire set of tasks, to determine whether IIV in RTs brought different information than the mean RT. The results showed that, although very strongly correlated, the mean and IIV in speed should be kept separate in terms of how they account for individual differences in WM. Overall, our results support the assumption of a link between WM capacity and IIV in RT, more strongly so in childhood and older adulthood.Keywords Aging . Development . Individual differences . Reaction time analyses/methods . Working memory . Intraindividual variabilityThe objective of the present article is to address the issue of the relationship between working memory (WM) capacity and within-task intraindividual variability (IIV) in reaction time (RT) tasks, investigating whether this relationship might vary across the lifespan. In this introduction, we will briefly present our approach to WM-in conformity with the demand of the editor of this special issue-and then discuss why a potential relationship can be hypothesized between WM and IIV and whether individual differences in WM could be related to IIV.As a number of researchers interested in developmental and/ or individual differences in WM, we consider the performance in WM tasks to be determined by a set of underlying attentional processes. These processes, such as the activation and inhibition of relevant informational units, are considered to become more efficient with age, accounting for part of cognitive development in children, and to vary in efficacy across individuals. We consider WM to be an index of what has frequently, and rather loosely, been labeled general resources. WM capacity, while remaining severely limited, increases with age both because of an increase in neurobiological mechanisms and because the use of resources becomes more efficient with experience. There is here a major point of departure between cognitive ex...

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“…Logie (2011) points out that the word "spatial" could refer to (1) the relative locations of several different objects in an array, (2) the locations of individual features within an object, (3) the serial order in which locations were presented, and (4) a series of arm or body movements. In order to clarify the characteristics of the different components of VSWM, Mammarella, Pazzaglia, and Cornoldi (2008) proposed a distinction based on the nature of the recall material and the mode of presentation: spatial-sequential (Corsi blocks test : Milner, 1971), spatial-simultaneous (Visual pattern test, including spatial location of items: Della Sala et al, 1999), and visual (appearance of objects, such as shape, color, and texture; see also Lecerf & de Ribaupierre, 2005).…”

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Support for distinct subcomponents of spatial working memory: A double dissociation between spatial–simultaneous and spatial–sequential performance in unilateral neglect

Wansard

Bastin

Segovia

et al. 2015

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Over the last decade, many studies have demonstrated that visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM) can be divided into separate subsystems dedicated to the retention of visual patterns and their serial order. Impaired VSWM has been suggested to exacerbate left visual neglect in rightbrain damaged individuals. The aim of this study was to investigate the segregation between spatial-sequential and spatial-simultaneous working memory in individuals with neglect. We demonstrated that patterns of results on these VSWM tasks can be dissociated. Spatialsimultaneous and sequential aspects of VSWM can be selectively impaired in unilateral neglect.Our results support the hypothesis of multiple VSWM subsystems, which should be taken into account to better understand neglect-related deficits.

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Recognition in a visuospatial memory task: The effect of presentation

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Performance on tasks of visuospatial memory and ability: A cross-sectional study in 330 adolescents aged 11 to 20

Performance on tasks of visuospatial memory and ability: A cross-sectional study in 330 adolescents aged 11 to 20

Working memory and intraindividual variability in processing speed: A lifespan developmental and individual-differences study

Support for distinct subcomponents of spatial working memory: A double dissociation between spatial–simultaneous and spatial–sequential performance in unilateral neglect

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