Verbal and visuospatial working memory as predictors of children's reading ability

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 467-477

  Pham, Andy V ^a   Hasson, Ramzi M ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Comprehension; Fluency; Reading; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84904984994     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acu024     Document Type: Article

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