Development of navigational working memory: Evidence from 6- to 10-year-old children

The ability to learn complex environments may require the contribution of different types of working memory. Therefore, we investigated the development of different types of working memory (navigational, reaching, and verbal) in 129 typically developing children. We aimed to determine whether naviga...

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Published in:British journal of developmental psychology 2014-06, Vol.32 (2), p.205-217
Main Authors: Piccardi, Laura, Leonzi, Marina, D'Amico, Simonetta, Marano, Assunta, Guariglia, Cecilia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Child Development - physiology
Children
Development
Developmental psychology
extrapersonal space
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender differentiation
human navigation
Humans
large-scale space
Male
Memory, Short-Term - physiology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Space Perception - physiology
Spatial Navigation - physiology
spatial representation
spatial working memory
topographical orientation
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Summary:The ability to learn complex environments may require the contribution of different types of working memory. Therefore, we investigated the development of different types of working memory (navigational, reaching, and verbal) in 129 typically developing children. We aimed to determine whether navigational working memory develops at the same rate as other types of working memory and whether the gender differences reported in adults are already present during development. We found that navigational working memory is less developed than both verbal and reaching working memory and that gender predicts performance only for navigational working memory. Our results are in line with reports that children made significantly more errors in far space than adults, showing that near space representation develops before far space representation.
ISSN:0261-510X
2044-835X
DOI:10.1111/bjdp.12036