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Angela Pasqualotto; Paola Venuti – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2025
This study investigated the role of domain-specific and domain-general factors in predicting early literacy skills in Italian children. A sample of 239 first-grade students was evaluated using a broad neuropsychological battery to assess their cognitive skills. The results showed that phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, speed of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Spelling
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Simpson-Kent, Ivan L.; Fried, Eiko I.; Akarca, Danyal; Mareva, Silvana; Bullmore, Edward T.; Kievit, Rogier A. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
Network analytic methods that are ubiquitous in other areas, such as systems neuroscience, have recently been used to test network theories in psychology, including intelligence research. The network or mutualism theory of intelligence proposes that the statistical associations among cognitive abilities (e.g., specific abilities such as vocabulary…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Intelligence, Schemata (Cognition)
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Cirino, Paul T.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Ewing-Cobbs, Linda; Barnes, Marcia A.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2007
The objectives of this study were to (1) evaluate group differences in specific arithmetic competencies among students with various types of learning difficulties (LD) and (2) to examine the influence of attention behaviors on possible group differences. Participants were a community sample of 291 third- and fourth-grade students with reading…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Arithmetic, Reading Difficulties, Mathematics Skills