Verbal declarative memory impairments in specific language impairment are related to working memory deficits

Brain and Language

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 76-85

  Lum, Jarrad A G ^a   Ullman, Michael T ^b   Conti Ramsden, Gina ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; List learning; Memory; Specific language impairment; Verbal learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84922324565     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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