The neurophysiology of working memory development: from childhood to adolescence and young adulthood
| Autor: | Catarina I. Barriga-Paulino, Ma Ángeles Rojas-Benjumea, Jaime Gómez-González, Elena I. Rodríguez-Martínez, Antonio Arjona, Carlos M. Gómez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
Activities of daily living Adolescent 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuroimaging Event-related potential Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Young adult Child Working memory General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Brain Electroencephalography Cognition Neurophysiology Brain Waves Memory Short-Term Childhood memory Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Reviews in the Neurosciences. 29:261-282 |
| ISSN: | 2191-0200 0334-1763 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/revneuro-2017-0073 |
| Popis: | Working memory (WM) is an important cognitive function that is necessary to perform our daily activities. The present review briefly describes the most accepted models underlying WM and the neural networks involved in its processing. The review focuses on how the neurophysiological mechanisms develop with age in the periods from childhood to adolescence and young adulthood. Studies using behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological techniques showed the progress of WM throughout the development. The present review focuses on the neurophysiology of the basic processes underlying WM operations, as indicated by electroencephalogram-derived signals, in order to take advantage of the excellent time resolution of this technique. Children and adults use similar cerebral mechanisms and areas to encode, recognize, and keep the stimuli in memory and update the WM contents, although adults rely more on anterior sites. The possibility that a functional reorganization of WM brain processing occurs around the adolescent period is suggested, and would partly justify the high prevalence of the emergence of mental pathology in the adolescent period. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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