A Dotted Triangle or Dots of Three: The Role of Representational Content on Working Memory Capacity in Early Childhood.

ABSTRACT: Working memory (WM) is a critical cognitive system that supports processing a variety of information. Remembering different types of objects may impose different levels of cognitive demands on WM performance. In the present study, we examined 205 children's WM in representing different types of content and its developmental trajectories in early childhood. Experiment 1 examined 5-year-olds' WM performance when remembering different content (animals and dots). To control perceptual differences, Experiment 2 compared the same-age children's WM performance when the stimuli (e.g., three dots) needed to be encoded from different representational domains (perceptual domain: visuospatial representation; conceptual domain: numerical representation). In Experiment 3, we further investigated the ear

SUBMITTER: Ren T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12361590 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature