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Improving working memory in children with low language abilities

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
This study investigated whether working memory training is effective in enhancing verbal memory in children with low language abilities (LLA). Cogmed Working Memory Training was completed by a community sample of children aged 8 to 11 years with LLA and ...
Joni eHolmes, Sally eButterfield, Francesca eCormack, Anita evan Loenhoud, Leanne eRuggero, Linda eKashikar, Susan eGathercole   +6 more
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Neuropsychological functioning in long-term survivors of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A prospective cross-sectional study

Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment, 2021
Background: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Given the improvement in the survival of patients with ALL over the last few decades, the adverse effects of treatment and disease on survivors have become a major ...
Jisha Abraham, Surendran Veeraiah, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan   +2 more
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Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1999
This target article discusses the verbal working memory system used in sentence comprehension. We review the concept of working memory as a short-duration system in which small amounts of information are simultaneously stored and manipulated in the service of accomplishing a task.
Caplan, David, Waters, Gloria
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Genetic Covariance Structure of Reading, Intelligence and Memory in Children [PDF]

, 2009
This study investigates the genetic relationship among reading performance, IQ, verbal and visuospatial working memory (WM) and short-term memory (STM) in a sample of 112, 9-year-old twin pairs and their older siblings.
A Baddeley, A Baddeley, A Baddeley, A Baddeley, A Brooks, A Gevins, A Zumberge, AC Kercher, AJ Marlow, B Byrne, BF Pennington, Cito, D Boomsma, D Evans, D Wechsler, DI Boomsma, DI Boomsma, Dorret I. Boomsma, DVM Bishop, Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol, HL Swanson, HL Swanson, HL Swanson, HL Swanson, J Gayán, JF Démonet, Jiska S. Peper, JJ Hottenga, JM Jansma, JS Peper, KE Stanovich, LA Thompson, LR Cardon, M Alarcón, M Leeuwen Van, M Neale, MA Ferreira, Marieke van Leeuwen, MI McCarthy, MJ Snowling, R Cohen-Mimran, R Olson, R Plomin, RB Livingston, RD Tiu Jr, RD Tiu Jr, RJ Sternberg, S Sluis Van der, SA Petrill, SE Gathercole, SE Gathercole, SJ Wadsworth, SJ Wadsworth, Stéphanie M. van den Berg, TS Price, VS Knopik, X Ding   +56 more
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Effect of verbal working memory load during the oculomotor activity in visual search

Экспериментальная психология, 2015
The structure of working memory has components responsible for the storage of verbal and visualspatial information; despite the fairly detailed study of the functions and mechanisms of their work, the question of their mutual influence is ...
B.B. Velichkovsky, A.I. Izmalkova
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Working memory still needs verbal rehearsal [PDF]

Memory & Cognition, 2015
The causal role of verbal rehearsal in working memory has recently been called into question. For example, the SOB-CS (Serial Order in a Box-Complex Span) model assumes that there is no maintenance process for the strengthening of items in working memory, but instead a process of removal of distractors that are involuntarily encoded and create ...
Lucidi, Annalisa, Langerock, Naomi, Hoareau, Violette, Lemaire, Benoît, Camos, Valérie, Barrouillet, Pierre Noël   +5 more
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Investigating the influence of music training on verbal memory [PDF]

, 2017
Previous research has shown that musical training is associated with enhanced verbal memory. The current study investigated the generality of this association by presenting undergraduates who had received musical training (n = 20) and undergraduates with
Dewhurst, Stephen A., Taylor, Alexandra C.   +1 more
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The effect of damage to the white matter network and premorbid intellectual ability on postoperative verbal short-term memory and functional outcome in patients with brain lesions.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Cognitive reserve is the capacity to cope with cognitive decline due to brain damage caused by neurological diseases. Premorbid IQ has been investigated as a proxy for cognitive reserve.
Kota Ebina, Mie Matsui, Masashi Kinoshita, Daisuke Saito, Mitsutoshi Nakada   +4 more
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Verbal Learning and Memory After Cochlear Implantation in Postlingually Deaf Adults: Some New Findings with the CVLT-II [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVES: Despite the importance of verbal learning and memory in speech and language processing, this domain of cognitive functioning has been virtually ignored in clinical studies of hearing loss and cochlear implants in both adults and children ...
Boyce, Lauren, Broadstock, Arthur, Castellanos, Irina, Davies, Alexandra, Harris, Michael S., Hernandez, Luis R., Kronenberger, William G., Miller, Kelly, Moberly, Aaron C., Pisoni, David B., Safdar, Natalie, Vasil, Kara, Wucinich, Taylor, Xu, Huiping   +13 more
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Beneficial effects of dark chocolate for episodic memory in healthy young adults: a parallel-groups acute intervention with a white chocolate control [PDF]

, 2020
There is good evidence that cocoa flavonoids can acutely improve cognitive function in humans, possibly via mechanisms such as increased cerebral blood flow. To date, much of the evidence is based on measures of executive function with extracts and cocoa-
Achilleos, Christina, Christodoulou, Eleni, Lamport, Daniel   +2 more
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