Change in strategies is often mentioned as a source of memory development. However,
though performance in working memory tasks steadily improves during childhood, theories …

Publisher Summary This chapter examines the development of working memory between
the age of 7 years and adulthood. The information in working memory can come from the …

Working memory refers to ideas that are thought of, or made available to the mind, just when
they are needed in order to carry out a mental task or solve a problem. This chapter …

Working memory is a dynamic and evolving area of psychological research. It combines
fundamental research into adults' performance, with developmental perspectives as well as …

This chapter discusses the development of working memory as children grow up. We shall
argue that working memory is an important resource for acquiring and performing cognitive …

Several models assume that working memory development depends on age-related
increases in efficiency and speed of processing. However, age-related increases in the …

The theoretical and practical understanding of cognitive development depends on working
memory, the limited information temporarily accessible for such daily activities as language …

Children live in a dynamic environment, in which objects continually change locations and
move into and out of occlusion. Children must therefore rely on working memory to store …

The time-based resource-sharing model (P. Barrouillet, S. Bernardin, & V. Camos, 2004)
assumes that during complex working memory span tasks, attention is frequently and …

For over a century, psychologists have amassed empirical research on phenomena that can
be labeled “memory.” For better or worse, the constraints on the phenomena that are labeled …