Serial order short-term memory capacities and specific language impairment: No evidence for a causal association

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 708-720

  Majerus, Steve ^a,b   Leclercq, Anne Lise ^a,b   Grossmann, Aurélie ^a   Billard, Catherine ^c   Touzin, Monique ^c   Van der Linden, Martial ^a,d   Poncelet, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS   (Belgium)

^c BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lexical learning; Serial order; Short term memory; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 63449089726     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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