Structural and operational capacities in integrative spatial ability.

@article{citeulike:2964299, abstract = {Four experiments were conducted to explore a distinction between structural capacity, the maximum number of informational units that can be temporarily stored, and operational capacity, the number of processing operations that can be executed while simultaneously preserving the products of earlier processing. The results, from a synthesis task requiring the integration of successively presented line segments into a composite stimulus, revealed that there were little or no age differences in structural capacity but large age differences favoring young adults in operational capacity. An attempt was also made to determine how much earlier information was available after each additional processing operation, but equivocal results precluded a definitive conclusion about the exact nature of the age differences in operational capacity.}, address = {School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332.}, author = {Salthouse, T. A. and Mitchell, D. R. }, citeulike-article-id = {2964299}, issn = {0882-7974}, journal = {Psychology and aging}, keywords = {aging, spatial}, month = {March}, number = {1}, pages = {18--25}, posted-at = {2008-07-04 13:47:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Structural and operational capacities in integrative spatial ability.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2803607}, volume = {4}, year = {1989} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2964299 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2964299 TI - Structural and operational capacities in integrative spatial ability. JF - Psychology and aging VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 18 EP - 25 AD - School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332. SN - 0882-7974 N2 - Four experiments were conducted to explore a distinction between structural capacity, the maximum number of informational units that can be temporarily stored, and operational capacity, the number of processing operations that can be executed while simultaneously preserving the products of earlier processing. The results, from a synthesis task requiring the integration of successively presented line segments into a composite stimulus, revealed that there were little or no age differences in structural capacity but large age differences favoring young adults in operational capacity. An attempt was also made to determine how much earlier information was available after each additional processing operation, but equivocal results precluded a definitive conclusion about the exact nature of the age differences in operational capacity. KW - aging KW - spatial AU - Salthouse, TA AU - Mitchell, DR PY - 1989/03// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2803607 ER -