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What makes working memory spans so predictive of high-level cognition?
Valérie CamosRaphaë Lle LépinePierre Parrouilletsubject
Malemedia_common.quotation_subjectStatistics as TopicShort-term memoryAptitudeExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyAttention spanVocabularyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Reading (process)Developmental and Educational PsychologyMemory spanReaction TimeHumansAttentionEffects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performanceChildProblem Solvingmedia_commonWorking memoryCognitionVerbal LearningMemory Short-TermReadingPredictive powerEducational StatusFemalePsychologyCognitive psychologydescription
Working memory (WM) span tasks involving a complex activity performed concurrently with item retention have proven to be good predictors of high-level cognitive performance. The present study demonstrates that replacing these complex self-paced activities with simpler but computer-paced processes, such as reading successive letters, yields more predictive WM span measures. This finding suggests that WM span tasks evaluate a fundamental capacity that underpins complex as well as elementary cognitive processes. Moreover, the higher predictive power of computer-paced WM span tasks suggests that strategic factors do not contribute to the relationship between WM spans and high-level cognition.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-02-01 | Psychonomic bulletinreview |