Age-Related Change in Visual Working Memory: A Study of 55,753 Participants Aged 8–75
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Psychology
- Vol. 4, 12
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00012
Abstract
Visual working memory abilities of 55,753 individuals between the ages of 8 and 75 were assessed to provide the most fine-grain analysis of age-related change in visual working memory to date. Results showed that visual working memory changes throughout the lifespan, peaking at age 20. A sharp linear decline follows that is so severe that by age 55, adults possess poorer immediate visual memory than 8 and 9 year olds. These developmental changes were largely explained by changing visual working memory capacity coupled with small short-term visual feature binding difficulties among children and older adults.Keywords
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