Does learning to read shape verbal working memory?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 703-722

  Demoulin, Catherine ^a,b   Kolinsky, Régine ^a,b  

^a FNRS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Literacy effects; Short term memory; Spelling knowledge effects; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84944710936     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0956-7     Document Type: Review

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