The Role of Structure in Age-Related Increases in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Span

The Role of Structure in Age-related Increases in Visuo-spatial Working Memory Span

————— Ineke Imbo, Arnaud Szmalec, and André Vandierendonck are affiliated to the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University. This research was conducted while Ineke Imbo and Arnaud Szmalec were fellows of the Special Research Fund at Ghent University (grants no. 011D07803 and no. 011D5601). The authors are grateful to Eva Kemps for her constructive comments on an earlier draft of t...

Development of visuo - spatial memory span 1 The role of structure in age - related increases in visuo - spatial working memory span

Development of visuo-spatial memory span 2 Abstract There is an important debate in the literature about the possible causes of developmental increases in working-memory span scores. In the present study, we tested the role of structure in relation to the age-related increases in visuo-spatial span performance. To that end, children and adults between nine and nineteen years old conducted struc...

the role of thematic structure in comprehending spoken language

in fact this study is concerned with the relationship between the variation in thematice structure and the comprehension of spoken language. so the study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any relationship between thematic structure and the comprehension of spoken language? 2. which of the themes would have greated thematic force and be easier for the subjects to comprehend? accord...

Visuo-spatial Working Memory

Age-Related Differences in Cortical Activity during a Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Task with Facial Stimuli

Emotion, importantly displayed by facial expressions, is one of the most significant memory modulators. The interaction between memory and the different emotional valences change across lifespan, while young adults (YA) are expected to better recall negative events (Negativity Bias Hypothesis), older adults (OA) tend to focus on positive stimuli (Positivity Effect Hypothesis). This research wor...