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  • Developmental psychology
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Human visual system

Background:

  • Visual working memory (VWM) is crucial for cognitive tasks.
  • Understanding VWM development is key to explaining cognitive maturation.
  • Early development lays the groundwork for adult cognitive functions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the literature on visual working memory (VWM) development.
  • To focus on developmental changes during infancy and early childhood.
  • To link infant and childhood VWM through computational frameworks.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of behavioral and neural data.
  • Analysis of methods assessing selective attention and perception.
  • Examination of spatial and featural memory development.

Main Results:

  • Innovative methods reveal foundational roles of attention and perception in VWM.
  • Infant VWM shows specific behavioral and neural developmental patterns.
  • Early childhood VWM development transitions towards adult-like spatial and featural memory.

Conclusions:

  • VWM develops significantly from infancy through early childhood.
  • Attention and perception are critical building blocks for VWM.
  • Computational models can explain VWM development across the lifespan.