We investigated the visuo-spatial and kinesthetic short term memory in children aged between 7 and 10 years through the Corsi Block test. The results showed that performance gets better with age that it is affected by sequence extension and by number of crossings paths. The performance is better in the visual modality than in the kinesthetic one; both modalities are affected in the same way by the sequence extension and number of crossing paths. Serial position curves are marked by primacy effect; recency effect is present just in visual modality. In sequences with six and seven blocks, when considered the number of crossing paths, the performance tends to get better in a higher tax for visual modality than for kinesthetic. The results do not support a kinesthetic memory independent of the spatial system, but suggests that both components contribute to the performance in the Corsi block test.
visuospatial memory; kinesthetic memory; Corsi block test
