Effect of visuo-spatial working memory on route learning

Visuo-spatial Working Memory

The Effect of Stress on Visuo-Spatial Working Memory

Stressful events are known to affect a range of cognitive functions, such as attention, memory formation and memory recall. With regard to visuo-spatial working memory, the relationship is particularly complex. In part, this complexity arises from an incomplete picture of visuo-spatial working memory that does not fit well with the experimental literature. The aim of the present study is to rec...

Learning to Form Visual Chunks: On the Structure of Visuo-Spatial Working Memory

We are interested in a functional account of how capacity constrains memory use in natural, ongoing behaviors, and in how visual memory demands can be reduced through the use of what we have called perceptual pointers, or deictic codes. Here, we ask whether, with experience, participants can restructure task representations such that single fixations can point to more and more complex chunks of...

Visuo-spatial Working Memory and the Comprehension of Iconic Gestures

Multi-modal discourse comprehension requires speakers to combine information from speech and gestures. To date, little research has addressed the cognitive resources that underlie these processes. Here we used a dual task paradigm to test the relative importance of verbal and visuo-spatial working memory in speech-gesture comprehension. Healthy, collegeaged participants encoded either a series ...

Functional neuroanatomy of visuo-spatial working memory in Turner syndrome.

Turner syndrome (TS), a genetic disorder characterized by the absence of an X chromosome in females, has been associated with cognitive and visuo-spatial processing impairments. We utilized functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate the neural substrates that underlie observed deficits in executive functioning and visuo-spatial processing. Eleven females with TS and 14 typically developing females (a...