Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume: 10 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 247-251
Effect of Stimulus Modality on the Performance on Working Memory Tasks in Children
Nisha Melempatt Lohithakshan1, Nuggehalli Puttaveeraiah Nataraja2
1Ph.D. Research Fellow, 2Director & Professor, J.S.S. Institute of Speech and Hearing, J.S.S. Research Foundation, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
Corresponding Author: Nisha Melempatt Lohithakshan
ABSTRACT
Working memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as comprehension, reasoning, and learning. The processing of the visual and auditory stimuli is different at the input stage, but the downstream effect of these differences in cognitive processing is unclear. The present study has compared the performance of the participants on the working memory tasks when the stimulus was presented through auditory and visual modality. The study included 60 typically developing children, in the age range of 9-10 years, with Malayalam as their mother tongue and medium of instruction at the school. The results have revealed that the performance on the working memory tasks was better when the stimuli were presented through the visual modality than the auditory modality.
Key words: Memory, Working Memory, Visual modality, Auditory modality, Auditory word retrieval, Word span.