Are mathematics disabilities due to a domain-general or a domain-specific working memory deficit?

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 237-248

  Wilson, Kathleen M ^a   Swanson, H Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0347871286     PISSN: 14690047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002221940103400304     Document Type: Article

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