Visuo-spatial working memory span of young adult eidetikers

Visuo-spatial Working Memory

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 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...

Visuo-spatial working memory span: a sensitive measure of cognitive deficits in children with ADHD.

Working memory (WM) has been hypothesised to be impaired in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, there are few studies reported on tests measuring visuo-spatial WM (VSWM) in ADHD. Some of these studies used paradigms including episodic memory, others only used low memory loads. In the present study we used a VSWM test that has not been used previously in ADHD research. The ...

Life-span Changes in Visuo-spatial Short Term Memory

Several experiments are presented to evaluate the development of visuo-spatial short term memory from childhood to old age (from five-year-olds to about 70-year-olds). Visuospatial short term memory was assessed through transformational imagery tasks. The first set of experiments (chapters 3, 4 and 5) concerned the development of mental rotation abilities. A review of the literature suggested t...