Development of Social Working Memory in Preschoolers and Its Relation to Theory of Mind

Autor/inn/en	He, Jie; Guo, Dong; Zhai, Shuyi; Shen, Mowei; Gao, Zaifeng
Titel	Development of Social Working Memory in Preschoolers and Its Relation to Theory of Mind
Quelle	In: Child Development, 90 (2019) 4, S.1319-1332 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13025
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Short Term Memory; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Theory of Mind; Memorization; Motion; Stimuli; Biology; Cognitive Processes; Social Cognition; Age Differences; Child Development; Prediction; Scores; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Gedächtnistraining; Bewegungsablauf; Anreizsystem; Biologie; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Soziale Kognition; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kindesentwicklung; Vorhersage; Korrelation
Abstract	Social working memory (WM) has distinct neural substrates from canonical cognitive WM (e.g., color). However, no study, to the best of our knowledge, has yet explored how social WM develops. The current study explored the development of social WM capacity and its relation to theory of mind (ToM). Experiment 1 had sixty-four 3- to 6-year-olds memorize 1-5 biological motion stimuli, the processing of which is considered a hallmark of social cognition. The social WM capacity steadily increased between 3- and 6-year-olds, with the increase between 4 and 5 years being sharp. Furthermore, social WM capacity positively predicted preschoolers' ToM scores, while nonsocial WM capacity did not; this positive correlation was particularly strong among 4-year-olds (Experiment 2, N = 144). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01