Synergies between processing and memory in childreńs reading span

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 779-789

  Towse, John N ^a   Hitch, Graham J ^b   Horton, Neil ^a   Harvey, Katarina ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77955721705     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00929.x     Document Type: Article

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