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Home Enrichment is Associated with Visual Working Memory Function in Preschoolers
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Christina Davidson; Line Caes; Yee Lee Shing; Courtney McKay; Eva Rafetseder; Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
Home enrichment plays an important role in shaping children's development. In the current study, we inquired whether home enrichment was associated with pre-schoolers' visual working memory (VWM) function, a critical cognitive system necessary for maintaining information for short periods of time. Home enrichment was assessed using an adapted…
Descriptors: Home Study, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Visual Perception
Working Memory, Visual-Spatial-Intelligence and Their Relationship to Problem-Solving
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Buhner, Markus; Kroner, Stephan; Ziegler, Matthias – Intelligence, 2008
The relationship between working memory, intelligence and problem-solving is explored. Wittmann and Suss [Wittmann, W.W., & Suss, H.M. (1999). Investigating the paths between working memory, intelligence, knowledge, and complex problem-solving performances via Brunswik symmetry. In P.L. Ackerman, R.D. Roberts (Ed.), "Learning and individual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intelligence, Problem Solving, Short Term Memory
The Contribution of Visual Sensitivity, Phonological Processing, and Nonverbal IQ to Children's Reading
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Pammer, Kristen; Kevan, Alison – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2007
It has been suggested that the differences observed for dyslexic readers compared to normal readers on tasks measuring visual sensitivity may simply be the result of differences between the two groups in general cognitive ability and/or attentional engagement. One common way to accommodate this proposal is to match normal and dyslexic readers on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Reading Skills, Intelligence Quotient, Dyslexia
Auditory and Visual Factors of Intelligence.
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Horn, John L.; Stankov, Lazar – Intelligence, 1982
Responses of 241 convicts on 18 primary mental abilities were factored to explore the idea that there are organizations among visual and auditory functions that operate independently from the relation-perceiving and correlate-educing functions of fluid and crystallized intelligence. The suggested reliable common-factor functions are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
PRELIMINARY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF VISUAL COGNITION AND MEMORY. STUDIES IN CINE-PSYCHOMETRY, FINAL REPORT, PART I.
SEIBERT, WARREN F.; AND OTHERS – 1965
PRELIMINARY ANALYSES WERE UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF MOTION PICTURE FILMS TO FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDIES OF HUMAN INTELLECT. OF PRIMARY CONCERN WERE THE OPERATIONS OF COGNITION AND MEMORY, FORMING TWO OF THE FIVE OPERATION COLUMNS OF GUILFORD'S "STRUCTURE OF INTELLECT." THE CORE REFERENCE FOR THE STUDY WAS DEFINED…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities of Learning-Disabled Females and Males.
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Vogel, Susan A.; Walsh, Patricia C. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
Gender differences in level and pattern of cognitive abilities were examined in 49 learning-disabled college students. Females were stronger in visual-motor abilities and verbal conceptualization, whereas the males' highest abilities were nonverbal visual-spatial. Both groups showed weaknesses in memory for digits and factual knowledge and in…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests