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Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee; Howell, Margaret – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
This study explored the contribution of two working memory (WM) systems to reading performance in younger and older children. Results showed significant age-related differences in verbal and visual-spatial WM performance were maintained when articulation speed and short-term memory were partialed from the analysis and that WM predicted age-related…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Learning Processes, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates the extent to which learning disabled readers' atypical encoding relates to their deficiencies in semantic memory by comparing learning disabled and nondisabled readers in two age groups on dichotic listening tasks that included orienting and nonorienting instructions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
