Working memory in young children: Evidence for modality-specificity and implications for cerebral reorganization in early childhood

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 643-652

  Fastenau, Philip S ^a   Conant, Lisa L ^b   Lauer, Roger E ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Child development; Immediate memory; Learning disability; Reading; Working memory; Written language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTOR SKILLS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031853968     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00151-6     Document Type: Article

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