Visuospatial working memory and early numeracy

By Minna Kyttälä, Pirjo Aunio *, J. Lehto, J. V. Van Luit, Jarkko Hautamäki. Educational & Child Psychology, 2003

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The present study investigated the relationship between visuospatial working memory (VSWM) capacity, mental rotation, general intelligence and early numeracy in preschoolers. Age-appropriate cognitive tasks benefiting cover stories were developed. The early numeracy test (ENT) was used to assess mathematical preskills. The total score was split to a counting tasks score and to a relational tasks score. The results suggested that counting tasks correlated with VSWM capacity and relational tasks only with general intelligence. Parallel to maths skills, the results are considered to reflect the cognitive complexity of mathematical preskills. The educational implications of the results are discussed.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability

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Effects of mental rotation training on children’s spatial and mathematics performance: A randomized controlled study (2015, background): “Defined as the ability to rotate mental representations of 2D and 3D objects in one’s mind, mental rotation skills have been linked to performance across a wide variety of mathematical tasks, including geometry [2,13], algebra [37], mental arithmetic [24,25] word problems [18], and advanced mathemat”
The Effect of Visual–Chunking–Representation Accommodation on Geometry Testing for Students with Math Disabilities (2012, background): “There is a subtype of students who struggle with math who have particular difﬁculties with visual imagery because of their short visual-working memory span (Geary & Hoard, 2005; Kytt¨al¨a, Aunio, Lehto, Van Luit, & Hautam¨aki, 2003).”
Spatial Training Improves Children's Mathematics Ability (2014, background): “Recall that children with better VSWM also exhibit better math performance (Alloway & Passolunghi, 2011; Gathercole & Pickering, 2000; Geary et al., 2007; Kyttälä et al., 2003; Meyer et al., 2010; Raghubar et al., 2010; Rasmussen & Bisanz, 2005).”