Visuospatial Cognitive Processes and Visual Surrounding Environment: Educational Implications

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Pedro F. S.
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17841
• topic: Psicologia Cognitiva; Atenção seletiva; Inibição; Memória de trabalho; Aprendizagem; Ambiente visual circundante; Validade ecológica; Selective attention; Inhibition; Working memory; Learning; Visual surrounding environment; Ecological validity

This literature review focuses on the importance of selective attention, inhibition and working memory inchildren’s learning. We start by presenting the definition and functional mechanisms of these cognitive processes. We then present the main results of several studies that report the importance of these processes, particularly in visuospatial tasks. We also discuss the role of the visual surrounding environment in learning, particularly with respect to an existing gap in most studies: Their low ecological validity. We argue for the importance of considering the visual external environment when trying to explain performance in basic cognitive processes. Finally, we stress the need for more empirical studies exploring in a systematic way the relation between these two elements (cognition and environment).