Working memory capacity and attentional networks: relationships between processing, storage and executive control components.

RICHARDS, M.; MUSSO, M. F.; CASCALLAR, E. C.

Amsterdam

Congreso; 15th European Congress of Psychology; 2017

European Federation of Psychologists? Association (EFPA)

Working memory capacity (WMC) has been shown to be a critical cognitive system which in interaction with attentional mechanisms participates in the production of complex higher order processes. The objectives of this study are to present normative data of WMC and attentional networks (AN) and to understand the relationships between the processing/time, storage/recall and executive attention components of this cognitive system. Method: 1218 university students, Female: 56.6%, (Mean of age=20.18; SD=3.129), enrolled in their first academic year. Instruments: Automated Operation Span to measure WMC and Attentional Networks Test to evaluate: alerting, orienting and executive attention. An 85% of arithmetic accuracy criterion was used to control the interference in the span test. Results: Descriptive statistics, storage scores, errors, reaction times and AN measures as a function of the percentile in the dataset will be presented. Gender effects on the recall measure of WMC, alerting, orienting and executive attention were found (p