How executive functions contribute to reading comprehension
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The contribution of executive skills to reading comprehension.
Although word recognition deficits (WRD) are a known cause of reading comprehension deficits (RCD), other contributions to RCD, including executive function (EF), have not been fully explored. We examined the contribution of EF (working memory and planning), along with attention, decoding, fluency, and vocabulary to reading comprehension in 60 children (including 16 WRD and 10 RCD), ages 9-15 y...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Educational Psychology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0007-0998,2044-8279
DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12355