Executive Functioning and Visual Working Memory
| Autor: | Franz Petermann, Franz Pauls, Anja C. Lepach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Adolescent Context (language use) Sample (statistics) Neuropsychological Tests Developmental psychology Task (project management) Executive Function Young Adult Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Aged Working memory Amodal perception Middle Aged Memory Short-Term Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Brain Injuries Case-Control Studies Space Perception Visual Perception Female Psychology psychological phenomena and processes Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. 22:100-107 |
| ISSN: | 2327-9109 2327-9095 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23279095.2013.860603 |
| Popis: | The matter of modality is controversially discussed in the context of working memory (WM). There is evidence that modality-specific processes are accompanied by amodal processes to some extent. We investigated the relationship between executive-functioning tasks and visual WM (VWM) and were especially interested in the issue of amodal processes. Our correlational analyses suggest modality-independent relations of the tasks. We also aimed to quantify to what extent executive functioning is meaningful for VWM performances. We therefore estimated the relationship between executive tasks and VWM performances in a healthy (n = 710) and a clinical traumatic brain injury sample (n = 151) as well as in the combined total sample. The results indicate a substantial relevance of the verbal task for VWM performances in the total and the clinical sample but a low relevance in the healthy sample. These results could support assumptions of resource-depending differences in the relations of executive functioning and VWM but need further validation due to limitations of our study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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