Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report.

ABSTRACT: We investigated how visual working memory (WM) develops with age across the early elementary school period (6-7 years), early adolescence (11-13 years), and early adulthood (18-25 years). The work focuses on changes in two parameters: the number of objects retained at least in part, and the amount of feature-detail remembered for such objects. Some evidence suggests that, while infants can remember up to three objects, much like adults, young children only remember around two objects. This curious, nonmonotonic trajectory might be explained by differences in the level of feature-detail required for successful performance in infant versus child/adult memory paradigms. Here, we examined if changes in one of two parameters (the number of objects, and the amount of detail retained for each obj

SUBMITTER: Forsberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10029097 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature