TY - JOUR
T1 - Working memory deficits in children with reading difficulties
T2 - Memory span and dual task coordination
AU - Wang, Shinmin
AU - Gathercole, Susan E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the children and staff of all the participating schools in the cities of York, Bristol, Durham, Leeds, and Selby, England, for their cooperation. The first author also thanks Aim for the Top University Project, NTNU, for the support at manuscript revision stage.
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - The current study investigated the cause of the reported problems in working memory in children with reading difficulties. Verbal and visuospatial simple and complex span tasks, and digit span and reaction times tasks performed singly and in combination, were administered to 46 children with single word reading difficulties and 45 typically developing children matched for age and nonverbal ability. Children with reading difficulties had pervasive deficits in the simple and complex span tasks and had poorer abilities to coordinate two cognitive demanding tasks. These findings indicate that working memory problems in children with reading difficulties may reflect a core deficit in the central executive.
AB - The current study investigated the cause of the reported problems in working memory in children with reading difficulties. Verbal and visuospatial simple and complex span tasks, and digit span and reaction times tasks performed singly and in combination, were administered to 46 children with single word reading difficulties and 45 typically developing children matched for age and nonverbal ability. Children with reading difficulties had pervasive deficits in the simple and complex span tasks and had poorer abilities to coordinate two cognitive demanding tasks. These findings indicate that working memory problems in children with reading difficulties may reflect a core deficit in the central executive.
KW - Central executive
KW - Dual task
KW - Reading difficulties
KW - Verbal memory span
KW - Visuospatial memory span
KW - Working memory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.015
DO - 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 23403228
AN - SCOPUS:84875514552
SN - 0022-0965
VL - 115
SP - 188
EP - 197
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
IS - 1
ER -