Phonological working memory in German children with poor reading and spelling abilities

Dyslexia

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-290

  Steinbrink, Claudia ^a   Klatte, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Long term memory; Reading disorder; Serial recall; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPELLING; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD LIST RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 62349141607     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.357     Document Type: Article

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