Visuospatial over verbal demands in predicting Tower of London planning tasks.

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 differen...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 103; no. 1; pp. 98 - 117
Autores principales: Cheetham, J. Marcus, Rahm, Benjamin, Kaller, Christoph Philipp, Unterrainer, Josef M.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2012
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          Cheetham, J. Marcus
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          Kaller, Christoph Philipp
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          Department of Neuropsychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
          Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Mainz, Germany
          Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany
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      ab: 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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