title: Visuo-spatial working memory limitations in low visuo-spatial high verbal intelligence children.
abstract: Visuo-spatial working memory was investigated in a group of 37 children aged between 10 and 14 years with low visuo-spatial intelligence. Their performance was poorer than that of a matched control group on a series of tests devised to ascertain visuo-spatial working memory yet was broadly similar in a language test and in school achievement tests. It is argued that low visuo-spatial intelligence children typically present limitations in the storage capacity of a passive system of the visuo-spatial working memory (with a raw measure of four-five stored elements) and especially in the operations required to process that information.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cornoldi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dalla Vecchia
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Tressoldi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012016:Reference Values; D014825:Vocabulary