Visuospatial over verbal demands in predicting Tower of London planning tasks
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The role of verbal and visuospatial information processing in Tower of London (TOL) tasks was investigated. The first part of the investigation examined the verbal and visuospatial abilities and preferred cognitive style (visualizer vs. verbalizer) of 79 participants, in an inter-individual differences approach. Visuospatial abilities significantly predicted TOL performance, but the impact of cognitive style was negligible. The second part applied a dual-task manipulation of concurrent interference of TOL planning tasks on verbal and visuospatial memory, using the same participants. Concurrent processing of the TOL tasks diminished visuospatial memory performance considerably but had no effect on verbal memory, and there was no interaction between cognitive style and memory. These findings clearly underscore the role of visuospatial information processing in TOL tasks and indicate little bearing of verbal or visual cognitive style on TOL problem solving. These results have important implications for TOL and cognitive style in clinical application and cognitive neuroimaging research.
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Tower performance is closely related to visuospatial rather than verbal working memory skills.
“An individual differences analysis by the latter group indicated that tower performance was closely related to visuospatial rather than verbal working memory skills (Gilhooly, Wynn, Phillips, Logie, & Della Sala, 2002; see also Cheetham, Rahm, Kaller, & Unterrainer, 2012).”
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- Authors
- Cheetham, J. M., Rahm, B., Kaller, C. P., & Unterrainer, J. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Unterrainer, Josef M.
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-06-06
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 98-116
- ISSN
- 0007-1269 (ISSN-L)
- 2044-8295
- OpenAlex
- W1585734394
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 3.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Keywords
- Tower of London, visuospatial ability, verbal ability, cognitive style, dual-task interference, visuospatial memory, verbal memory, planning, executive function, individual differences
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cognition, Female, Humans, Individuality, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Neuropsychological Tests, Problem Solving, Space Perception, Verbal Behavior, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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