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| Title: | Role of working memory in children's understanding spoken narrative: A preliminary investigation |
| Author: | James W. Montgomery |
| Institution: | Ohio University |
| Author: | Anzhela Polunenko |
| Institution: | Hillsborough Public School System |
| Author: | Sally A. Marinellie |
| Institution: | Ohio University |
| Linguistic Field: | Phonology; Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | The role of phonological short-term memory (PSTM), attentional resource capacity/allocation, and processing speed on children's spoken narrative comprehension was investigated. Sixty-seven children (6–11 years) completed a digit span task (PSTM), concurrent verbal processing and storage (CPS) task (resource capacity/allocation), auditory–visual reaction time (AV) task (processing speed), and the Test of Narrative Language. Correlation and regression analyses examined the association between the memory variables and comprehension. The main findings were (a) CPS and AV correlated with comprehension and (b) after accounting for age, CPS accounted for a significant 7.9% of unique variance and AV accounted for another significant 5.2%. The results indicate that resource capacity/allocation and processing speed are important to children's ability to understand spoken narrative. |
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This article appears IN Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 30, Issue 3. |
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