Working Memory Deficits in Poor Comprehenders Reflect Underlying Language Impairments

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-158

  Nation, Kate ^a   Adams, John W ^b   Bowyer Crane, Claudine A ^b   Snowling, Margaret J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Development; Language difficulties; Reading comprehension; Reading difficulties; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033142883     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1999.2498     Document Type: Article

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