The Complexities of Complex Memory Span: Storage and Processing Deficits in Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Archibald, Lisa M. D.; Gathercole, Susan E.
Titel	The Complexities of Complex Memory Span: Storage and Processing Deficits in Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 57 (2007) 2, S.177-194 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2006.11.004
Schlagwörter	Memory; Control Groups; Language Impairments; Child Development; Verbal Ability; Cognitive Processes; Verbal Learning; Children; Case Studies; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Kindesentwicklung; Mündliche Leistung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Verbales Lernen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	This study investigated the verbal and visuospatial processing and storage skills of children with SLI and typically developing children. Fourteen school-age children with SLI, and two groups of typically developing children matched either for age or language abilities, completed measures of processing speed and storage capacity, and a set of complex memory tasks that systematically combined verbal and visuospatial processing and storage. The SLI group was slower at processing verbal and visuospatial information, and was impaired in the ability to remember verbal material, compared with same-age peers. Recall accuracy was reduced in the SLI group on the complex memory tasks that combined verbal storage with either verbal or visuospatial processing, to a greater extent than the younger language control group. This deficit could not be accounted for by impairments in verbal storage alone. These results indicate that deficits in verbal storage, possibly twinned with slower processing, underlie the substantial SLI impairments on complex memory activities. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10