He Guifen, Song Wei, Dong Peiqi, Xu Canmei, Zhou Yanlin, Ye Haoqin, Zhang Qiong
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Department of Parenting and Special Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Oct 3;14(10):897. doi: 10.3390/bs14100897.
Previous research has suggested that there are two modular processes of perspective selection and calculation in level 1 perspective taking. Evidence further showed that verbal working memory is associated with both processes in adults. However, research has not tested whether verbal working memory may be associated with working memory in children. Moreover, since perspective taking is associated with spatial working memory, it is necessary to investigate whether spatial working memory links to both processes. By recruiting 9-year-old children and college students in the single-task paradigm and the dual-task paradigm, we conducted two experiments to answer these questions. Results in experiment 1 suggested that verbal working memory correlated with adults' perspective calculation, but with both processes in children's perspective taking. Results in experiment 2 showed that spatial working memory is associated with adults' perspective calculation and children's perspective selection. These findings suggest that different components of working memory play distinct roles in the processing of perspective taking, which is moderated by age.
先前的研究表明，在一级观点采择中存在观点选择和计算这两个模块化过程。有证据进一步表明，言语工作记忆在成年人中与这两个过程均相关。然而，尚未有研究检验言语工作记忆是否可能与儿童的工作记忆相关。此外，由于观点采择与空间工作记忆相关，因此有必要探究空间工作记忆是否与这两个过程相联系。通过在单任务范式和双任务范式中招募9岁儿童和大学生，我们进行了两项实验来回答这些问题。实验1的结果表明，言语工作记忆与成年人的观点计算相关，但与儿童观点采择的两个过程均相关。实验2的结果表明，空间工作记忆与成年人的观点计算以及儿童的观点选择相关。这些发现表明，工作记忆的不同成分在观点采择过程中发挥着不同的作用，且这一情况受年龄的调节。
