Practitioner Review: Verbal Working Memory Development and its Disorders
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 36 (3) , 373-398
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01297.x
Abstract
Working memory refers to the systems responsible for the temporary storage and manipulation of information during the performance of cognitive tasks. There is a good deal of evidence that verbal short-term memory functions as a working memory system. We review advances in our understanding of the nature and limitations of verbal short-term memory and the reasons for its development with age, and go on to consider the common association between impairments of verbal short-term memory and other impairments of cognitive development. We conclude by considering the relationship between short-term memory development and cognitive development.Keywords
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