Differences in fMRI activation between children with and without spelling disability on 2-back/0-back working memory contrast

Journal of Writing Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-123

  Richards, Todd ^a   Berninger, Virginia ^a   Winn, William ^a   Lee Swanson, H ^b   Stock, Patricia ^a   Liang, Olivia ^a   Abbott, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

n back working memory task; Normal spelling; Spelling disability; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014969336     PISSN: 20301006     EISSN: 22943307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17239/jowr-2009.01.02.1     Document Type: Article

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