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Peer reviewedBull, Rebecca; Johnston, Rhona S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Studied relationships among short-term memory, processing speed, sequencing ability, and long-term memory information retrieval in 7-year-olds. Found that when reading ability was controlled, arithmetic ability was best predicted by processing speed, with short-term memory accounting for no further unique variance. Children with arithmetic…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Children, Cognitive Processes, Long Term Memory
