Disentangling the relationship between working memory and language: the roles of short-term storage and cognitive control.
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In both studies, the authors attributed the transfer to reading to the strong relation of complex span tasks to reading ability and memory retrieval.
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- Authors
- Engel de Abreu, P. M. J., Gathercole, S. E., & Martin, R.
- Affiliations
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- University of Luxembourg (LU)
- Venue
- Learning and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-10
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 569-574
- ISSN
- 1041-6080 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2171740449
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 68
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- FWCI
- 14.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Learning and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Keywords
- working memory, language acquisition, short-term storage, cognitive control, multilingual children, vocabulary development, syntactic development, early reading development, rhyme awareness, fluid intelligence, young children, complex span
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