Neuropsychological components of intellectual disability: The contributions of immediate, working, and associative memory

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 406-417

  Edgin, Jamie O ^a,b   Pennington, Bruce F ^b   Mervis, Carolyn B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive behaviour; Cognition; Down syndrome; Intellectual disability; Williams syndrome; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953340730     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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