Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Front Psychol. 2013 Jan 29;4:12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00012. eCollection 2013.
Visual working memory (VWM) 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 VWM to date. Results showed that VWM 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 VWM capacity coupled with small short-term visual feature binding difficulties among children and older adults.
对 55753 名 8 至 75 岁人群的视觉工作记忆 (VWM) 能力进行了评估,以提供迄今为止对 VWM 随年龄变化的最细致分析。结果表明,VWM 在整个生命周期中发生变化,在 20 岁时达到峰值。此后呈急剧线性下降,到 55 岁时,成年人的即时视觉记忆能力比 8 至 9 岁儿童还差。这些发展变化主要归因于 VWM 能力的变化,以及儿童和老年人在短期视觉特征绑定方面的微小困难。