Working memory impairments in children with specific arithmetic learning difficulties

JF McLean, GJ Hitch - Journal of experimental child psychology, 1999 - Elsevier
Working memory impairments in children with difficulties in arithmetic have previously been
investigated using questionable selection techniques and control groups, leading to …

Working memory failures in children with arithmetical difficulties

MC Passolunghi, C Cornoldi - Child Neuropsychology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
A large body of literature has examined the relationship between working memory and
arithmetic achievement, but results are still ambiguous. To examine this relationship, we …

The development of working memory in normally achieving and subtypes of learning disabled children

LS Siegel, EB Ryan - Child development, 1989 - JSTOR
Working memory has been proposed as an important component of reading and arithmetic
skills. The development of working memory was studied in normally achieving and subtypes …

Working memory in children with specific arithmetical learning difficulties

GJ Hitch, E McAuley - British journal of psychology, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Siegel & Ryan (1989) reported that children with specific arithmetical learning difficulties
(ALD) were impaired if they had to retain temporary information concurrently with counting …

Children's arithmetical difficulties: Contributions from processing speed, item identification, and short-term memory

R Bull, RS Johnston - Journal of experimental child psychology, 1997 - Elsevier
Children's arithmetical difficulties are often explained in terms of a short-term memory deficit.
However, the underlying cause of this memory deficit is unclear, with some researchers …

[PDF][PDF] The effects of phonological and visual-spatial interference on children's arithmetical performance

B McKenzie, R Bull, C Gray - Educational and Child Psychology, 2003 - researchgate.net
Investigations of the cognitive processes involved in adults' mental arithmetic have shown
the importance of phonological rather than visual codes in performance (eg Logie, Gilhooly …

Working memory and access to numerical information in children with disability in mathematics

MC Passolunghi, LS Siegel - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2004 - Elsevier
The relationship among working memory, mathematic ability, and the cognitive impairment
of children with difficulties in mathematics was examined. A group of children with difficulties …

Representation and working memory in early arithmetic

C Rasmussen, J Bisanz - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2005 - Elsevier
Working memory has been implicated in the early acquisition of arithmetic skill, but the
relations among different components of working memory, performance on different types of …

Phonological storage and executive function deficits in children with mathematics difficulties

P Peng, S Congying, L Beilei, T Sha - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2012 - Elsevier
Children with mathematics difficulties suffer from working memory deficits. This study
investigated the deficit profile of phonological storage and executive functions in working …

Working memory and arithmetic calculation in children: The contributory roles of processing speed, short-term memory, and reading

DH Berg - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2008 - Elsevier
The cognitive underpinnings of arithmetic calculation in children are noted to involve
working memory; however, cognitive processes related to arithmetic calculation and working …