Verbal and Visuospatial Short-Term and Working Memory in Children: Are They Separable?

Autor/inn/en	Alloway, Tracy Packiam; Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth; Pickering, Susan J.
Titel	Verbal and Visuospatial Short-Term and Working Memory in Children: Are They Separable?
Quelle	In: Child Development, 77 (2006) 6, S.1698-1716 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00968.x
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Spatial Ability; Children; Cognitive Processes; Factor Analysis; Verbal Ability; Neuropsychology; Cognitive Psychology; Comparative Analysis; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Faktorenanalyse; Mündliche Leistung; Neuropsychologie; Kognitive Psychologie; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	This study explored the structure of verbal and visuospatial short-term and working memory in children between ages 4 and 11 years. Multiple tasks measuring 4 different memory components were used to capture the cognitive processes underlying working memory. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the processing component of working memory tasks was supported by a common resource pool, while storage aspects depend on domain-specific verbal and visuospatial resources. This model is largely stable across this developmental period, although some evidence exists that the links between the domain-specific visuospatial construct and the domain-general processing construct were higher in the 4- to- 6-year age group. The data also suggest that all working memory components are in place by 4 years of age. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10