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Published on: February 14, 2014
Age differences in visuospatial working memory
Gillian Rowe1, Lynn Hasher, Josée Turcotte
1Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. gillian@psych.utoronto.ca
Abstract:
In two visuospatial working memory (VSWM) span experiments, older and young participants were tested under conditions of either high or low interference, using two different displays: computerized versions of a 3 x 3 matrix or the standard (randomly arrayed) Corsi block task (P. M. Corsi, 1972). Older adults' VSWM estimates were increased in the low-interference, compared with the high-interference, condition, replicating findings with verbal memory span studies. Young adults showed the opposite pattern, and together the findings suggest that typical VSWM span tasks include opposing components (interference and practice) that differentially affect young and older adults.
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