I can look for it! Modulation of a concurrent Visual Working Memory task in Visual Search in development.

ABSTRACT: Daily classroom activities that require children to perform visual search (VS) tasks are common across all educational levels: from searching for a missing piece of a puzzle in kindergarten to solving equations in college. However, VS tasks are often not performed in isolation, but rather students are maintaining information related to an ongoing task that loads working memory (WM). Unfortunately, it is still unclear how these processes interact and evolve in development. The present work aims to study how a concurrent visual WM (VWM) load can modulate VS performance based on the Developmental Model of Endogenous Mental Attention (Pascual-Leone and Johnson, 1999, 2005, 2021). A sample of kindergarten, elementary (2nd and 4th grades), middle school (6th grade), and college students looked f

SUBMITTER: Quiros-Godoy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9353270 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature