Deficits in verbal long-term memory and learning in children with poor phonological short-term memory skills

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 474-490

  Gathercole, Susan E ^a   Briscoe, Josie ^b   Thorn, Annabel ^b   Tiffany, Claire ^b   Team, Alspac Study ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38949133455     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701273443     Document Type: Article

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