{"pk":28357,"title":"Indexing visual working memory capacity in infancy","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Working memory (WM), central to later-developing executive function, is available to infants from birth. The presentstudy examined individual- and age-related differences in infant WMC utilizing a range of methodologies to quantifyWM in a sample of 70 6-12-month-olds. We compared performance across a battery of WM tasks varying in levels ofcognitive load. A range of delay durations were introduced within each task to determine maximum delays that infantsmay successfully tolerate and still yield above-chance performance. Overall results suggest WM abilities may be readilyassessed as early as 6-months. As task difficulty increased, age-related improvements in WM performance increasedaccordingly. Additionally, average performance across tasks and delays significantly increased from 34% at 6-months to46% at 12-months. Investigation of individual differences across tasks, delays and modalities will be discussed. Outcomesof this study help to better understand and quantify infant WM and how it matures throughout early development.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4j64d9pb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sanders","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28357/galley/18084/download/"}]}