The domain-specific and domain-general relationships of visuospatial working memory to reasoning ability

Domain-general and domain-specific functional networks in working memory

Working memory (WM) is a latent cognitive structure that serves to store and manipulate a limited amount of information over a short time period. How information is maintained in WM remains a debated issue: it is unclear whether stimuli from different sensory domains are maintained under distinct mechanisms or maintained under the same mechanism. Previous neuroimaging research on this issue to ...

The Relationships between Domain Specific and General- Purpose Languages

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are used for increasing productivity, improving quality and maintainability, and reusing experts’ knowledge. Current DSL development approaches reveal a tradeoff between the efforts required for developing a DSL to the benefits the DSL will introduce. This tradeoff is directly linked to the relationship between the DSL to general purposed programming languages (...

Abstract Booklet Interplay of Domain-Specific and Domain-General Aspects of Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Skills

Domain-general mechanisms of complex working memory span

A new fMRI complex working memory span paradigm was used to identify brain regions making domain-general contributions to working memory task performance. For both verbal and spatial versions of the task, complex working memory span performance increased the activity in lateral prefrontal, anterior cingulate, and parietal cortices during the Encoding, Maintenance, and Coordination phase of task...

Effects of Domain, Retention Interval, and Information Load on Young and Older Adults’ Visuospatial Working Memory

Age-related differences in visuospatial working memory were examined in 69 young adults and 49 older adults exposed to three pairs of tasks. Each pair consisted of one task involving information about the form or appearance of items and another task involving information about item locations. The first pair of tasks manipulated retention interval and required maintaining information about one i...