Increased Brain Activity in Frontal and Parietal Cortex Underlies the Development of Visuospatial Working Memory Capacity during Childhood

By Torkel Klingberg, Hans Forssberg, Helena Westerberg. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Maturation of White Matter is Associated with the Development of Cognitive Functions during Childhood (2004, background): “The white matter cluster in the superior part of the left frontal lobe is located about 10 mm medial and posterior to the cortical region in the superior frontal sulcus where development of visuospatial WM capacity and brain activity are correlated (Klingberg et al., 2002).”
The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: Converging neuroimaging evidence (2007, background): “Specifically, several studies indicate that a higher level of ability/expertise, both within and between age groups, is associated with increased parietal – as much as or more so than frontal – cortical activation (Klingberg et al. 2002; Lee et al. 2006).”
A Developmental Perspective on Executive Function (2010, background): “The end result of these changes (quantitative and qualitative, progressive and regressive) from childhood to adulthood is a functionally-specialized visuospatial WM neural network (see Klingberg, Forssberg, and Westerberg, 2002, for similar changes from age 9 to18 on a visuo-spatial WM task).”
Working Memory Training and the Effect on Mathematical Achievement in Children with Attention Deficits and Special Needs (2013, background): “WM capacity and activity in the same areas were also found to be related (Klingberg et al., 2002).”
Adolescence as a neurobiological critical period for the development of higher-order cognition (2018, positive): “In summary, these periods of elevated plasticity are typically preceded by a proliferation of synapses and axons that are then shaped into reliable, efficient circuits in an experience-dependent manner (Knudsen, 2004).”
Imaging the developing brain: what have we learned about cognitive development? (2005, neutral): “especially dorsolateral prefrontal cortex [30,35,36,40, 43 ] and ventral prefrontal cortex [28,34,37,39,42], and decreased recruitment of lower level sensory regions”