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    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Developmental Psychology
    • Computational Neuroscience

    Background:

    • Working memory is crucial for higher cognitive functions.
    • Existing theories fail to connect working memory development across infancy and childhood.
    • Inconsistent capacity estimates exist between infant and child studies.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To bridge the gap between infant and child working memory research.
    • To present a process-oriented theory of working memory development.
    • To explain developmental changes using a cognitive dynamics approach.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a computational model of cognitive dynamics.
    • Tested predictions on visual working memory capacity in infants and children.
    • Analyzed performance across change-preference and change detection tasks.

    Main Results:

    • Capacity estimates increase beyond infancy in the change-preference task.
    • Capacity estimates were higher in the change-preference task compared to change detection.
    • Performance correlated across tasks, supporting a unified memory system.
    • Developmental changes linked to increased real-time stability in the model.

    Conclusions:

    • The cognitive dynamics account successfully explains working memory development.
    • Real-time stability, modeled as network connectivity, underlies developmental changes.
    • Findings have broad implications for understanding memory and cognitive development.