The deficit profile of working memory, inhibition, and updating in Chinese children with reading difficulties

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-117

  Peng, Peng ^a,b   Sha, Tao ^b   Li, Beilei ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Inhibition; Reading difficulties; Task modality; Updating; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876848846     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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