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Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development
Working memory is a cognitive system devoted to storage and retrieval processing of information. Numerous studies on the development of working memory have investigated the processing of visuo-spatial and verbal non-spatialized information; however, little is known regarding the refinement of acoust...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8670674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34905544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260700 |
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author | Setti, Walter Cuturi, Luigi F. Sandini, Giulio Gori, Monica |
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description | Working memory is a cognitive system devoted to storage and retrieval processing of information. Numerous studies on the development of working memory have investigated the processing of visuo-spatial and verbal non-spatialized information; however, little is known regarding the refinement of acoustic spatial and memory abilities across development. Here, we hypothesize that audio-spatial memory skills improve over development, due to strengthening spatial and cognitive skills such as semantic elaboration. We asked children aged 6 to 11 years old (n = 55) to pair spatialized animal calls with the corresponding animal spoken name. Spatialized sounds were emitted from an audio-haptic device, haptically explored by children with the dominant hand’s index finger. Children younger than 8 anchored their exploration strategy on previously discovered sounds instead of holding this information in working memory and performed worse than older peers when asked to pair the spoken word with the corresponding animal call. In line with our hypothesis, these findings demonstrate that age-related improvements in spatial exploration and verbal coding memorization strategies affect how children learn and memorize items belonging to a complex acoustic spatial layout. Similar to vision, audio-spatial memory abilities strongly depend on cognitive development in early years of life. |
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spelling | pubmed-86706742021-12-15 Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development Setti, Walter Cuturi, Luigi F. Sandini, Giulio Gori, Monica PLoS One Research Article Working memory is a cognitive system devoted to storage and retrieval processing of information. Numerous studies on the development of working memory have investigated the processing of visuo-spatial and verbal non-spatialized information; however, little is known regarding the refinement of acoustic spatial and memory abilities across development. Here, we hypothesize that audio-spatial memory skills improve over development, due to strengthening spatial and cognitive skills such as semantic elaboration. We asked children aged 6 to 11 years old (n = 55) to pair spatialized animal calls with the corresponding animal spoken name. Spatialized sounds were emitted from an audio-haptic device, haptically explored by children with the dominant hand’s index finger. Children younger than 8 anchored their exploration strategy on previously discovered sounds instead of holding this information in working memory and performed worse than older peers when asked to pair the spoken word with the corresponding animal call. In line with our hypothesis, these findings demonstrate that age-related improvements in spatial exploration and verbal coding memorization strategies affect how children learn and memorize items belonging to a complex acoustic spatial layout. Similar to vision, audio-spatial memory abilities strongly depend on cognitive development in early years of life. Public Library of Science 2021-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8670674/ /pubmed/34905544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260700 Text en © 2021 Setti et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Setti, Walter Cuturi, Luigi F. Sandini, Giulio Gori, Monica Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development |
title | Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development |
title_full | Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development |
title_fullStr | Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development |
title_full_unstemmed | Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development |
title_short | Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: The role of spatial and phonological development |
title_sort | changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: the role of spatial and phonological development |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8670674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34905544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260700 |
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