Under-performing school kids may have poor working memory, not low IQ

The Hindustan Times;  February 28, 2008 ;     605 words ......concentrated research into poor working memory in children, will for the first time...appropriate intervention, poor working memory in children, which is thought to be...teachers to manage the children's working memory loads, which will minimise...

Working memory in Dutch children with reading- and arithmetic-related LD.

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  May 1, 2005 ;   van der Sluis, Sophie van der Leij, Aryan de Jong, Peter F.;   787 words ......been to study working memory performance in children with learning...RD) have lower working memory capacity than...Specifically, children with RD have...have also found working memory deficits in children with a specific...

Working memory and learning in children with developmental coordination...

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  May 1, 2008 ;   Packiam Alloway, Tracy Archibald, Lisa;   787 words ......functioning of the working memory system has...in groups of children with marked...comparison of working memory profiles in children with different...subcomponents of working memory may differentiate...domains. SLI in children is an unexpected...

Improve working memory in ADHD.(CLINICAL CAPSULES)(attention deficit...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  April 1, 2005 ;   Splete, Heidi;   129 words ......systematic practice of working memory tasks improved working memory in a study of 53 children with attention deficit...intervention of daily working memory exercises, including...complete. When the children were evaluated 3 months...

An Indispensable Guide That Examines The Function Of Working Memory In...

M2 Presswire;  May 28, 2008 ;     512 words ......memory assessment -Working memory development during...WISC -IV Integrated, Children's Memory Scale, and the Working Memory Test Battery for Children -Assessment cases...and adolescents with working memory deficits Drawing on...

Poor working memory is cited in ADHD.(Behavioral Pediatrics)

Pediatric News;  June 1, 2008 ;   Wachter, Kerri;   434 words ...PHILADELPHIA -- Children with attention-defic...performed worse than children without the disorder on tests of working memory--an important...case-controlled study of 64 children aged 7-12 years. In the study, 35 children with ADHD (24...which assesses working memory ...

Working memory low in children with ADHD.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)

Clinical Psychiatry News;  June 1, 2008 ;   Wachter, Kerri;   306 words ...PHILADELPHIA -- Children with attention-defic...performed worse than children without the disorder on tests of working memory--an important...case-controlled study of 64 children aged 7-12 years. In the study, 35 children with ADHD (24...which assesses working memory. ...

Working memory can store only 3 to 4 things at a time

The Hindustan Times;  April 24, 2008 ;     564 words ......only three or four things in their "working memory" or conscious mind at a time. University...number of objects in his or her mind. "Working memory is like the number of memory registers...fixed number of registers. Limits in working memory are important because working ...

Why do children perseverate when they seem to know better: Graded working...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  December 1, 2007 ;   Cepeda, Nicholas J; Munakata, Yuko;   787 words ......and graded working memory accounts can explain how children can answer...the graded working memory account) would...predicts that children who are able...questions. Children who are able...have stronger working memory representations...

NEUROCOGNITIVE CORRELATES OF CHILD ANXIETY: A REVIEW OF WORKING MEMORY...

Cognitie, Creier, Comportament;  December 1, 2006 ;   Visu-Petra, Laura; Ciairano, Silvia; Miclea, Mircea;   787 words ......childhood anxiety upon working memory paralleling the mounting...anxiety-biased processes upon working memory processes, at both the...regarding the extent of the working memory transitory impairment in anxious children, as well as its exact...executive component of ...

Does Strategy Knowledge Influence Working Memory in Children with...

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  September 1, 2001 ;   Keeler, Marsha L. Swanson, H. Lee;   787 words ...Working memory (WM), the limited...many studies of children with learning...linking MD and working memory is children's declarative...is related to children's memory performance...Furthermore, working memory and strategy...

Working memory has limited "slots".(Research Roundup)

The Hearing Review;  May 1, 2008 ;     687 words ......Davis shows how our very short-term working memory --memory that allows the brain to stitch...quarter-second, separated by brief gaps. The working memory system smoothes out this jerky sequence...typically last just a few seconds. We use working memory hundreds of thousands of times ...

Working memory contributions to relative clause attachment processing: A...

Memory & Cognition;  July 1, 2007 ;   Traxler, Matthew J;   787 words ......sentences differ as a function of working memory capacity. Specifically, both English...relative clause increased as their working memory capacity increased. In the present study, readers' working memory capacity was measured, and eye...

When visual and verbal memories compete: Evidence of cross-domain limits...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  April 1, 2004 ;   Morey, Candice C; Cowan, Nelson;   787 words ......investigators have suggested that visual working memory operates in a manner unaffected by...a shared limitation. With a visual working memory task in which two arrays of color squares...seven-digit sequence. However, visual working memory performance decreased markedly when...

The role of working memory in attentional capture

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  August 1, 2005 ;   Lavie, Nilli; de Fockert, Jan;   787 words ......critically depends on availability of working memory to the search task: When working memory is loaded in a concurrent yet unrelated...previous demonstrations that increasing working memory load results in greater distractor interference...