Capacidad geométrica y memoria visoespacial en población adulta

A study carried out with an indigenous tribe from Amazon (Dehaene, Izard, Pica, & Spelke, 2006) demonstrated the existence of an intuitive ability in the performance of conceptual categories of geometry. Subsequently, some of these categories have been related to the Visuospatial Working Memory (VSWM) component in children (Mammarella, & cols., 2013) and adolescents (Giofrè, & cols., 2013). Our results with adult population (undergraduate students) show that a high level of control or active processing in VSWM predicts part of the variance found in those geometric concepts demanding a more complex processing, as it is the case of mental transformation. These findings are explained from the continuity model of Cornoldi and Vecchi (2003).