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Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how executive function skills in verbal and nonverbal auditory tasks are related to early reading skills in beginning readers. Kindergarteners (N = 41, aged 5 years) completed verbal (phonemes) and nonverbal (environmental sounds) Continuous Performance tasks yielding measures of executive function (misses,…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Executive Function, Kindergarten
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Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Damian, Markus F.; Davis, Colin J. – Psychological Review, 2009
Presents a postscript to the current authors' comment on the original article, "Short-term memory for serial order: A recurrent neural network model," by M. M. Botvinick and D. C. Plaut. In their commentary, the current authors demonstrated that Botvinick and Plaut's (2006) model of immediate serial recall catastrophically fails when familiar…
Descriptors: Serial Ordering, Short Term Memory, Alphabets, Models
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Lervag, Arne; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
We examined the growth of spelling skills in a large sample of Norwegian children (N = 228) over the first 3 years in school. The roles of phoneme awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN), visual-verbal paired-associate learning, and verbal short-term memory as predictors of later spelling skills were examined. Phoneme awareness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Reading Skills, Skill Development