Cognitive Development and Working Memory : A Dialogue between Neo-Piagetian Theories and Cognitive Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780415653404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 312 str.

Pierre Barrouillet; Vinciane Gaillard

Opis

This text presents a unique attempt to address issues of working memory by establishing a dialogue between neo-Piagetian theorists and researchers specialized in typical and atypical working memory development.

Spis treści

P.Barrouillet, V.Gaillard, Introduction: From Neo-Piagetian Theories to Working memory Development Studies Part 1. Neo Piagetian Theories to Working Memory Development Studies J. Pascual-Leone, J. Johnson, A Developmental Theory of Mental Attention: Its Application to Measurement and Task Analysis G. Andrews, G.S.Halford, Recent Advances in Relational Complexity Theory and Its Application to Cognitive Development A. Demetriou, A. Mouyi, Processing Efficiency, Representational Capacity, and Reasoning: Modelling Their Dynamic Interactions A. De Ribaupierre, D. Fagot, T. Lecerf, Working Memory Capacity and its Role in Cognitive Development: Are Age Differences Driven by the Same Processes Across the Lifespan? Part 2. Underlying Processes of Working Memory Development N.Cowan, C.C.Morey, A.M. AuBuchon, C.E. Zwilling, A.L.Gilchrist, J. Scott Saults, New Insights Into An Old Problem: Distinguishing Storage From Processing in the Development of Working Memory V. Camos, P. Barrouillet, Factors of Working Memory Development: The Time-Based Resource-Sharing Approach C. Jarrold, H. Tam, Rehearsal and the Development of Working Memory Part 3. Working Memory in Typical and Atypical Development H.L. Swanson, The Influence of Working Memory Growth on Reading and Math Performance in Children With Math And/ Or Reading Disabilities T. Packiam Alloway, L. Archibald, Working Memory in Development: Links with Learning Between Typical and Atypical Populations

O autorze

Pierre Barrouillet is Professor of Developmental Psychology at University of Geneva and Director of the Archives Jean Piaget. His research investigates the development of conditional reasoning and numerical cognition, as well as the functioning and development of working memory.

Vinciane Gaillard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) Consciousness, Cognition, and Computation group, directed by Axel Cleeremans. Her main research interests concern sequence learning, consciousness, control, attention, working memory, development and aging.