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Kimel, Eva; Ahissar, Merav – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Are difficulties of individuals with dyslexia (IDDs) reduced or enhanced in tasks where linguistic regularities typically facilitate performance, such as vocabulary acquisition and reading? If impaired short-term memory and poor phonological decoding pose the main impediments to IDDs, then they are expected to compensate for these difficulties…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Dyslexia, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
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Huijbregts, S. C. J.; Seguin, J. R.; Zelazo, P. D.; Parent, S.; Japel, C.; Tremblay, R. E. – Infant and Child Development, 2006
Maternal prenatal smoking, birth weight and sociodemographic factors were investigated in relation to cognitive abilities of 1544 children (aged 3.5 years) participating in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children's Development. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) was used to assess verbal ability, the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Family Income, Smoking, Pregnancy