Are working memory measures free of socioeconomic influence?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1580-1587

  Engel, Pascale Marguerite Josiane ^a   Santos, Flávia Heloísa ^b   Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Socioeconomic status; Verbal complex span; Verbal short term memory; Vocabulary; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 56849103037     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0210)     Document Type: Article

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