Evidence for Different Components in Children's Visuospatial Working Memory.
By Irene Mammarella, Francesca Pazzaglia, Cesare Cornoldi. 2008
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There are a large number of studies demonstrating that visuospatial working memory (VSWM) involves different subcomponents, but there is no agreement on the identity of these dimensions. The present study attempts to combine different theoretical accounts by measuring VSWM. A battery composed of 13 tests was used to assess working memory and, in particular, the hypothesized mechanisms involved in the tasks, that is, active processing and passive recall of visual versus sequential-spatial versus simultaneous-spatial versus verbal tasks. The battery consisted of a number of tests already used in previous studies and new tests developed to examine specific components of working memory. We analysed the psychometric characteristics of the tests, the correlations amongst measured variables and estimated the measured variables with structural equation modelling in children attending third and fourth grades. Results revealed that the best model was composed of a specific verbal factor, three visuospatial passive factors (sequential-spatial, simultaneous-spatial, and visual) and one visuospatial active factor.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Occupational Therapy
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- Visuospatial working memory in intuitive geometry, and in academic achievement in geometry (2013, methodology): “(the sequential dot matrix task), or spatial-simultaneous (the simultaneous dot matrix task) (Pazzaglia & Cornoldi, 1999; Mammarella et al., 2008).”