Tag: Vanessa Simmering

Vanessa Simmering, PhD

Posted on June 26, 2017

Working memory is a basic cognitive process that predicts higher-level skills. A central question in theories of working memory development is the generality of the mechanisms proposed to explain improvements in performance.

Vanessa Simmering, PhD

Posted on May 9, 2016

Title: Four-year-olds’ selective production of verbal cues predicts their spatial skills Legend: (Top panel) Sample trials of spatial tasks children completed (A) mental transformations, (B) spatial analogies, (C) feature binding, and (D) picture rotation. (Bottom left panel) Examples of the spatial scene description task trial types, in which children could use (A) three cues, color, …