The domain-specific and domain-general relationships of visuospatial working memory to reasoning ability
| Autor: | Jade Yonehiro, Zach Shipstead |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Adolescent Intelligence Short-term memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verbal learning 050105 experimental psychology Thinking Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Component (UML) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Visual short-term memory Working memory 05 social sciences Memory rehearsal Verbal Learning Verbal reasoning Memory Short-Term Space Perception Visual Perception Female Verbal memory Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23:1504-1512 |
| ISSN: | 1531-5320 1069-9384 |
| Popis: | The degree to which visuospatial working memory (VSWM) is separable from working memory in general is an open question. On one hand, the construct is often researched as a unitary, domain-specific system. On the other, there is evidence that VWSM shares a common processing component with verbal memory. One might interpret this shared component as domain-general attention. We used confirmatory factor analysis to demonstrate that VSWM shares a domain-general component with verbal memory tasks and has a domain-specific component that is independent of verbal memory. Furthermore, the domain-general component was found to correlate with reasoning ability in both the visuospatial and verbal domains. The domain-specific component only correlated with reasoning ability when the tests had a strong visuospatial component. We argue that theories of VSWM need to place greater emphasis on its multiply determined nature. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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