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Swanson, H. Lee – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Compared verbal and visuo-spatial working memory (WM) performance under initial, gain, and maintenance conditions for nine age groups from 6 to 57 years to determine if differences were attributable to specific or general processing functions. Found support for a general-capacity explanation of age-related differences, reflecting demands placed on…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children