The Inner Eye and the Inner Scribe of Visuo-spatial Working Memory: Evidence from Developmental Fractionation

Logie, Robert H.; Pearson, David

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“…Indeed, behavioral measures of WM systems improve substantially between the ages of 5 and 9 years (Gathercole, Pickering,may fractionate through development from early childhood to adolescence or early adulthood. Indeed, Logie and Pearson (1997) suggested that the systems for visuospatial WM are fractionated to a greater extent in children aged 8 to 9 years than in those aged 5 to 6 years, and Gathercole et al (2004) showed that the modular structure of WM is present from 6 years of age, but is not present in 4-year-olds.…”

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Developmental Fractionation of Working Memory and Response Inhibition During Childhood

Tsujimoto

Kuwajima

Sawaguchi

2007

Experimental Psychology

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Abstract. The lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) plays a major role in both working memory (WM) and response inhibition (RI), which are fundamental for various cognitive abilities. We explored the relationship between these LPFC functions during childhood development by examining the performance of two groups of children in visuospatial and auditory WM tasks and a go/no-go RI task. In the younger children (59 5-and 6-year-olds), performance on the visuospatial WM task correlated significantly with that in the auditory WM task. Furthermore, accuracy in these tasks correlated significantly with performance on the RI task, particularly in the no-go trials. In contrast, there were no significant correlations among those tasks in older children (92 8-and 9-year-olds). These results suggest that functional neural systems for visuospatial WM, auditory WM, and RI, especially those in the LPFC, become fractionated during childhood, thereby enabling more efficient processing of these critical cognitive functions.

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Developmental Fractionation of Working Memory and Response Inhibition During Childhood

Tsujimoto

Kuwajima

Sawaguchi

2007

Experimental Psychology

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“…The basis of the steady increase across the childhood years in scores on tests of visuospatial short-term memory that use material that is not phonologically recodable is not as yet fully understood (e.g., Pickering, Gathercole, Hall, & Lloyd, 2001). One possibility is that the developmental increases reflect changes in the storage capacity of the visuospatial sketchpad per se (Logie & Pearson, 1997). Alternatively, they may relate to other age-related changes such as increasingly effective deployment of strategies, accumulating long-term knowledge relating to visuospatial structures, or increased support by the central executive (see Pickering, 2001, for a review).…”

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The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age.

Gathercole

Pickering

Ambridge

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Developmental Psychology

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The structure of working memory and its development across the childhood years were investigated in children 4 -15 years of age. The children were given multiple assessments of each component of the A. D. Baddeley and G. Hitch (1974) working memory model. Broadly similar linear functions characterized performance on all measures as a function of age. From 6 years onward, a model consisting of 3 distinct but correlated factors corresponding to the working memory model provided a good fit to the data. The results indicate that the basic modular structure of working memory is present from 6 years of age and possibly earlier, with each component undergoing sizable expansion in functional capacity throughout the early and middle school years to adolescence.

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“…Although spatial and visual information was initially considered to be processed by a single VSSP system, subsequent neuropsychological studies have indicated the need to distinguish between visual and spatial STM (Della Sala, Gray, Baddeley, Allamano, & Wilson, 1999;Pickering, Gathercole, Hall, & Lloyd, 2001). Logie and colleagues (1995;Logie & Pearson, 1997) suggested a fractionation of the sketchpad into two subcomponents: a visual cache (temporary visual storage) and an inner scribe (retrieval and a rehearsal -3 -mechanisms; analogous to the articulatory rehearsal of the PL). Dynamic (e.g., Corsi Block Test) and static (e.g., Visual Patterns Test) span tasks are typically used to measure spatial and visual memory, respectively.…”

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Working Memory in Portuguese Children With Developmental Dyslexia

Moura¹,

Simões²,

Pereira³

2014

Applied Neuropsychology: Child

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A Portuguese sample of 50 children with developmental dyslexia and 50 typical readers who were matched for age (8 to 12 years old) were tested on measures of working memory.Relative to the typical readers, the children with developmental dyslexia performed significantly lower on phonological loop and central executive tasks; however, they exhibited no impairments on visuospatial sketchpad tasks. After controlling for the influence of the phonological loop, the group differences in central executive were no longer significant. The results of a receiver operating characteristics curve analysis and a binary logistic regression analysis suggested that the phonological loop and central executive tasks (but not the visuospatial sketchpad tasks) were relevant variables for identifying children with developmental dyslexia. Hierarchical linear regression analyses showed that the phonological loop and central executive (Backward Digit Span only) tasks were significant predictors of reading and spelling abilities.

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The Inner Eye and the Inner Scribe of Visuo-spatial Working Memory: Evidence from Developmental Fractionation

Cited by 276 publications

References 42 publications

Developmental Fractionation of Working Memory and Response Inhibition During Childhood

Developmental Fractionation of Working Memory and Response Inhibition During Childhood

The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age.

Working Memory in Portuguese Children With Developmental Dyslexia

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