The Relationship Between Inhibition and Working Memory In Preschoolers: Evidence For Different Inhibitory Abilities

Laura Traverso, Chiara Mantini, Maria Carmen Usai, Paola Viterbori
2015 EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science  
The present cross-sectional study aims to explore the contribution of working memory (WM) in different inhibitory abilities (i.e., response inhibition and interference suppression) in 72 children who are between 3 and 5 years of age. The results showed that response inhibition tasks are influenced by both verbal and spatial WM, whereas the interference suppression task was not influenced by WM when the analysis controlled for age.
dblp:conf/eapcogsci/TraversoMUV15 fatcat:qio3ynv6ybahfbkrascwd3nbza