Capacidad geométrica y memoria visoespacial en población adulta

  1. Ana Pérez 1
  2. Irene Mammarella 2
  3. Francesco Del Prete 1
  4. Teresa Bajo 1
  5. Cesare Cornoldi 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada, CIMCYC, España
  2. 2 Universidad de Padova, Italia
Revista:
Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 35

Número: 2

Páginas: 225-249

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Un estudio llevado a cabo con una tribu indígena del Amazonas (Dehaene, Izard, Pica y Spelke, 2006) demostró la existencia de una capacidad intuitiva para la ejecución de categorías conceptuales de geometría. Posteriormente, se ha demostrado que algunas de estas categorías se relacionan con el componente Visoespacial de la Memoria de Trabajo (MTVE) en niños (Mammarella y cols., 2013) y adolescentes (Giofrè y cols., 2013). Nuestros resultados con población adulta (estudiantes universitarios), muestran que un alto grado de control o procesamiento activo en MTVE predice parte de la varianza encontrada sólo en aquellos conceptos geométricos que demandan un procesamiento más complejo, como es el caso de la transformación mental. Estos hallazgos se enmarcan dentro del modelo de continuidad de Cornoldi y Vecchi (2003).

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