Stuck on the Last: The Last-Presented Benefit as an Index of Attentional Refreshing in Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Working memory is a limited-capacity system responsible for maintaining information that is known to dramatically develop throughout childhood and adolescence. Different maintenance mechanisms are proposed to support working memory development, among which is attentional refreshing. Attentional refreshing is assumed to improve the accessibility of working-memory representations by cycling attention from one mental representation to the other, serially. It has been suggested that the efficiency of refreshing increases between the ages of 7 and 14 years old, thereby supporting working memory development. Yet, there is not much research about refreshing in adolescence. Here, we investigate the occurrence of refreshing in 15-year-olds by using a recently-developed index, i.e., the last-present

SUBMITTER: Valentini B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9860735 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature