Event Abstract Back to Event The development of visual short-term memory in infancy Lisa M. Oakes1* 1 University of California, Department of Psychology, United States Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is critical for planning eye-movements and integrating information over brief occlusions (such as eye-blinks); therefore infants’ perception of and learning about the visual world depends on VSTM. We assess infants’ VSTM using change detection procedures involving the following sequence: an array of items is briefly presented (e.g., 500 ms), a brief delay occurs (300 ms), and then a comparison array is seen (e.g., red object + green object + blue object; delay; red object + yellow object + blue object). Detecting this change requires rapidly encoding the first array, maintaining it over the brief retention period, and then comparing it to the new array. These procedures have revealed significant development in VSTM. At 4 months, infants detect changes when arrays contain a single object. Between 6 and 8 months, infants become able to detect changes in the identities of multiple individual objects, in the locations of multiple individual objects, and in the bindings of object identities to locations. Because these abilities have been related to parietal cortex functioning in adults, we hypothesize that the changes in VSTSM between 6 and 8 months reflect parietal development. Conference: Conference on Neurocognitive Development, Berkeley, CA, United States, 12 Jul - 14 Jul, 2009. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Topic: Learning and memory Citation: Oakes LM (2009). The development of visual short-term memory in infancy. Conference Abstract: Conference on Neurocognitive Development. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.10.018 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 06 Jul 2009; Published Online: 06 Jul 2009. * Correspondence: Lisa M Oakes, University of California, Department of Psychology, Davis, United States, lmoakes@ucdavis.edu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Lisa M Oakes Google Lisa M Oakes Google Scholar Lisa M Oakes PubMed Lisa M Oakes Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.