TY - JOUR AU - Caviola, Sara AU - Marmarella, Irene C. AU - Cornoldi, Cesare AU - Lucangeli, Daniela PY - 2017/08/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A metacognitive visuospatial working memory training for children JF - International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education JA - IEJEE VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/261 SP - 122-136 AB - <p>The paper studies whether visuospatial working memory (VSWM) and, specifically, recall of<br>sequential-spatial information, can be improved by metacognitive training. Twenty-two<br>fourth-grade children were involved in seven sessions of sequential-spatial memory<br>training, while twenty-four children attended lessons given by their teacher. The posttraining<br>evaluation demonstrated a specific improvement of performances in the Corsi<br>blocks task, considered a sequential-spatial working memory task. However, no benefits of<br>training were observed in either a verbal working memory task or a simultaneous-spatial<br>working memory task. The results have important theoretical implications, in the study of<br>VSWM components, and educational implications, in catering for children with specific<br>VSWM impairments.</p> ER -