Exploring bilateral field advantage across lifespan with a visual working memory span task : experimental data, analysis and computer simulation

Slana Ozimič, Anka (author), Repovš, Grega (author)

This article describes the data collected in four experiments presented in the paper "Visual working memory capacity is limited by two systems that change across lifespan" [1]. The data includes behavioural results from a sample of 397 healthy participants performing a visual working memory span task in which they had to maintain the orientations of items presented to the left, right, or both visual hemifields. It also includes a simulation of experimental data for a number of possible scenarios. The repository [2] encompasses individual raw data files, a Python preprocessing script used for filtering raw data and the resulting dataset, an R script used to carry out the statistical analysis of the preprocessed data as well as an R script used for the simulations reported in the original paper. Finally, the repository includes an R generated analysis report, containing results of statistical tests and related visual materials, as well as the results of the simulation.

• Language: English
• Keywords: working memory, visual memory, visual working memory capacity, cognitive psychology, brain, neuropsychology, life span, bilateral advantage, active maintenance, healthy aging, orientations, representational potential, span task, bilateral field advantage
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.03 - Short Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts; MF - Faculty of Medicine
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 6 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 30, art. 105502
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-137733
• UDC: 159.953.2:159.91
• ISSN on article: 2352-3409
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105502
• COBISS.SI-ID: 71985762
• Publication date in RUL: 29.06.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Data in brief
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2352-3409
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32117977

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: delovni spomin, vidni spomin, kapaciteta vidnega delovnega spomina, kognitivna psihologija, možgani, nevropsihologija, življenjska doba, obojestranska prednost, aktivno vzdrževanje, zdravo staranje, orientacije, reprezentacijski potencial, naloga razpona