Figure 1.
The scores for 4.5- to 15-year-old children on the number of items that can be held in mind (span) on the counting-span and spatial-span tasks. The data for the counting-span task are adapted from Crammond (1992) and those from the spatal-span task are adapted from Menna (1989). From “Normal development of prefrontal cortex from birth to young adulthood: Cognitive functions, anatomy, and biochemistry,” by A. Diamond. In Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, by D. T. Stuss and R. T. Knight (Eds.), 2002, London: Oxford University Press. Copyright 2002 by Oxford University Press. Reprinted with permission.