The complex-arithmetic performance of three different populations was tested: Flemish-speaking Belgians; Englishspeaking Canadians; and Chinese-speaking Chinese participants currently living in Canada. All participants solved complex addition problems (e.g., 58 + 73) under no-load and load conditions, in which one component of working memory (either the central executive or the phonological loo...

In daily life, speech perception is usually accompanied by other tasks that tap into working memory capacity. However, the role of working memory on speech processing is not clear. The goal of this study was to examine how working memory load affects the timeline for spoken word recognition in ideal listening conditions. We used the "visual world" eye-tracking paradigm. The task consisted of sp...

The development of a well-formulated view of the memory storage systems (lexicons) involved in word recognition is a central goal of research on language processes. Assumptions about the organizing characteristics and structures of these memory systems are found in various discussions of lexical neighborhoods (Coltheart, Davelaar, Jonasson, & Besner, 1977) or cohorts (Johnson & Pugh, 1994; Mars...

Working memory (WM) may be an essential component of incidental vocabulary learning and retention from captioned videos. However, how WM affects young learners’ under different types captions remains unclear. The present study employs a between-subject research design. main purpose is to examine two WM— phonological short-term complex WM—impact outcomes incidentally learned retained three capti...

It is commonly assumed that as short-term memory tasks become more difficult, a transient phonological trace that supports recall loses its fidelity. Recall can still be achieved through a process called redintegration, where long-term phonological or lexical knowledge is used to reconstruct the memory trace. In the present research, we explored age-related differences in the redintegration pro...

This longitudinal study explored the importance of kindergarten measures of phonological awareness, working memory, and quantity-number competencies (QNC) for predicting mathematical school achievement in third graders (mean age 8 years 8 months). It was found that the impact of phonological awareness and visual-spatial working memory, assessed at 5 years of age, was mediated by early QNC, whic...

background and aim: although recent research has revealed the positive effects of bilin­gualism on children's cognitive abilities, little information is available on the relationship bet­ween bilingualism and working memory. working memory is generally composed of four dis­tinct parts, among which the phonological loop plays an important role in speech and language development, reading skills, ...

PURPOSE To explore the phonological awareness skills of deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) and relationships with vocabulary and reading development. METHOD Forty-three deaf children with implants who were between 5 and 15 years of age were tested; 21 had been implanted at around 2.5 years of age (Early CI group), and 22 had been implanted at around 5 years of age (Late CI group). Two...

PURPOSE To investigate the relations between musical experience, auditory processing and phonological awareness of groups of 5-year-old children with and without musical experience. METHODS Participants were 56 5-year-old subjects of both genders, 26 in the Study Group, consisting of children with musical experience, and 30 in the Control Group, consisting of children without musical experien...

The relation between working memory (WM) limitation and sentence comprehension was assessed in Hebrew-speaking aphasics, three conduction aphasics and three agrammatics. The study compared sentences that required different types of reactivation-syntactic-semantic reactivation, in relative clauses, and word form/phonological reactivation, in sentences with reanalysis of lexical ambiguity. The ef...