Disentangling the relationship between working memory and language: The roles of short-term storage and cognitive control

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 569-574

  Engel de Abreu, Pascale Marguerite Josiane ^a,b   Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth ^a,c   Martin, Romain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Language; Multilingual; Verbal short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052157257     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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