Impact of auditory selective attention on verbal short-term memory and vocabulary development

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-86

  Majerus, Steve ^a,b   Heiligenstein, Lucie ^a   Gautherot, Nathalie ^a   Poncelet, Martine ^a   Linden, Martial Van der ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Lexical development; Serial order; Verbal short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67349175609     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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