Effect of mental abacus training on working memory for children

摘要：

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of mental abacus training for children on their working memory. Suppression tasks were manipulated to investigate the roles played by visuo-spatial sketchpad and phonological loop for working memory of the primary task in tree experiments. The results showed that children who had received mental abacus training exhibited better performance on digit span but not Chinese word span than the ones without mental abacus training. The results also indicated that the mental arithmetic should depend on phonological loop to maintain and store numerical information for the children who had not received mental abacus training. Based on the results, children who had received mental abacus training have better performance in mental calculation than the ones without training. The author speculated that these children may execute mental calculation with their visuo-spatial sketchpad to form mental imagery.

关键词： mental abacus training working memory visuo-spatial sketchpad phonological loop

作者: Min-Sheng Chen Chang-Tzu Wang Chih-Nan Wang

作者单位: Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, National Yunlin University of Science andTechnolo Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technol

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-7

在线出版日期: 2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）