{"pk":50000,"title":"Developmental Trajectories of Working Memory Updating from Early Childhood to Adolescence: A Meta-Analysis","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Working memory updating, the process of replacing outdated information with new data, is a crucial cognitive function for learning that develops significantly throughout childhood and adolescence. However, the developmental trajectory and task-specific patterns remain inadequately understood. This meta-analysis examined 64 studies (N = 22,572\nparticipants) investigating working memory updating performance across five age groups\n(3-17 years) using various updating paradigms. Results revealed a significant positive\ndevelopmental trend, with the most substantial improvements occurring between the ages\nof 3 and 8 years. Additionally, task-specific analyses demonstrated various developmental\npatterns, with keep track tasks—the selective updating of relevant information from\nspecific categories while discarding irrelevant data—showing the most pronounced age-related improvement. Together, these findings suggest that working memory updating\nfollows a systematic developmental progression, influenced by task-based variations,\noffering valuable insights into cognitive development and potential applications for\neducational practices","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Decision making; Development; Memory; Developmental analysis"}],"section":"Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6g00n67p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ye","middle_name":"","last_name":"Song","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Chen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cheng","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50000/galley/37962/download/"}]}