Language influences on verbal short-term memory performance in down syndrome: Item and order recognition

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1334-1346

  Brock, Jon ^a,b   Jarrold, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Lexical knowledge; Phonological processing; Verbal short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; VERBAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 12144283115     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/100)     Document Type: Article

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