scholarly journals Short-Term Storage and Executive Working Memory Processing Predict Fluid Intelligence in Primary School Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Memory Processing ◽  
Short Term Storage ◽  
Executive Working Memory ◽  
Term Storage

scholarly journals Is short-term storage correlated with fluid intelligence? Strategy use explains the apparent relationship between ‘number of remembered items’ and fluid intelligence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeljana Babic ◽  
Mark Schurgin ◽  
Timothy F. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Structured Representations ◽  
Short Term Storage ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Term Storage

Working memory is a core cognitive system that actively maintains information in an accessible state to support a variety of everyday tasks. Crucially, working memory performance has frequently been shown to strongly correlate with fluid intelligence. Traditionally when these correlations have been observed, the working memory tasks involved required a high degree of manipulation and executive function, as opposed to solely utilizing short-term storage capacity. However, recent work has claimed that simple storage capacity is also correlated with fluid intelligence, and that this is driven by a particularly special and dissociable component of capacity, the ‘number of items represented’ (rather than the precision of those representations). These results have been used to argue that investigating the underlying mechanisms of capacity limitations may be critical to understanding aspects of fluid intelligence. Here we demonstrate that such correlations do not arise solely or primarily from simple storage capacity (nor a single dissociable component of capacity), but are driven by the availability of strategic encoding of different kinds of visual representations. Specifically, a working memory task that decreased the utility of storing and making use of spatial ensemble information, while holding constant the number of items to be remembered and the exact changes participants needed to detect, significantly reduced the correlation between working memory performance and fluid intelligence. Thus, despite being probed on the same items, with the same foils, at the same set size, only working memory displays that allowed for the strategic use of both item and ensemble representations correlated with fluid intelligence. These results provide evidence against the hypothesis that simple storage alone is related to fluid intelligence. They also demonstrate that participants make use of more complex and structured representations rather than solely individual item representation, and that strategic utilization of these representations is what correlates strongly with fluid intelligence.

The Relationship between Visual Working Memory with Motivational Beliefs and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Primary School Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Moshirian Farahi ◽  
Shamim Razaghi Kashani ◽  
Seyedeh Maryam Moshirian Farahi ◽  
Mahyar Moghaddam ◽  
Molouk Khademi Ashkzari
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Visual Working Memory ◽  
School Children ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Motivational Beliefs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cognitive And Metacognitive Strategies

Realizing the Now-or-Never bottleneck and Chunk-and-Pass processing with Item-Order-Rank working memories and masking field chunking networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Grossberg
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Variable Length ◽  
Neural Models ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Language System ◽  
Item Order ◽  
Short Term Storage ◽  
Term Storage

AbstractChristiansen & Chater's (C&C's) key goals for a language system have been realized by neural models for short-term storage of linguistic items in an Item-Order-Rank working memory, which inputs to Masking Fields that rapidly learn to categorize, or chunk, variable-length linguistic sequences, and choose the contextually most predictive list chunks while linguistic inputs are stored in the working memory.

The relation between a multicomponent working memory and intelligence: The roles of central executive and short-term storage functions

Intelligence ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 166-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peera Wongupparaj ◽  
Veena Kumari ◽  
Robin G. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Central Executive ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Short Term Storage ◽  
Term Storage

Working memory functioning in deaf primary school children: Implications for inclusive education

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Cockcroft ◽  
Hansini Dhana ◽  
Kirston Greenop
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Memory Functioning

scholarly journals The Monkey game: A computerized verbal working memory task for self-reliant administration in primary school children

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 756-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Van de Weijer-Bergsma ◽  
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen ◽  
Shahab Jolani ◽  
Johannes E. H. Van Luit
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Primary School Children

Working memory and vocabulary development in Greek preschool and primary school children

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisavet Chrysochoou ◽  
Zoe Bablekou ◽  
Elvira Masoura ◽  
Nikolaos Tsigilis
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
Primary School Children

scholarly journals The electrophysiological underpinnings of variation in verbal working memory capacity

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri G. Pavlov ◽  
Boris Kotchoubey
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Beta Activity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Average Complexity ◽  
Short Term Storage ◽  
Term Storage

Abstract Working memory (WM) consists of short-term storage and executive components. We studied cortical oscillatory correlates of these two components in a large sample of 156 participants to assess separately the contribution of them to individual differences in WM. The participants were presented with WM tasks of above-average complexity. Some of the tasks required only storage in WM, others required storage and mental manipulations. Our data indicate a close relationship between frontal midline theta, central beta activity and the executive components of WM. The oscillatory counterparts of the executive components were associated with individual differences in verbal WM performance. In contrast, alpha activity was not related to the individual differences. The results demonstrate that executive components of WM, rather than short-term storage capacity, play the decisive role in individual WM capacity limits.

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