Some comparative ontogenetic data imply that effective working-memory capacity develops in ways that are independent of brain size in humans. These are interpreted better from …
The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …
Growth in working memory capacity, the number of items kept active in mind, is thought to be an important aspect of childhood cognitive development. Here, we focused on participants' …
How do infants reason about simple physical events such as containment, tube, and support events? According to the two-system model, two cognitive systems, the object-file (OF) and …
M Stavans, Y Lin, D Wu, R Baillargeon - Psychological review, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Comparison of infant findings from the physical-reasoning and object-individuation literatures reveals a contradictory picture. On the one hand, physical-reasoning results …
Working memory is the system responsible for the temporary maintenance and processing of information involved in most cognitive activities, and its study is essential to the …
Children do not understand the meanings of count words like “two” and “three” until the preschool years. But even before knowing the meanings of these individual words, might …
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 …
Abstract relations are considered the pinnacle of human cognition, allowing for analogical and logical reasoning, and possibly setting humans apart from other animal species. Recent …