Children with developmental language impairments (DLI) are often reported to show
difficulties with working memory. This review describes the four components of the well …

We investigated component language and cognitive skills of oral language comprehension
of narrative texts (ie, listening comprehension). Using the construction–integration model of …

Humans have systematic sex differences in brain-related behavior, cognition, and pattern of
mental illness risk. Many of these differences emerge during adolescence, a developmental …

In this 8‐year longitudinal study, we traced the vocabulary growth of Chinese children,
explored potential precursors of vocabulary knowledge, and investigated how vocabulary …

This article reviews research that has investigated the role of verbal working memory (VWM)
in sentence comprehension in both typical and atypical developmental populations. Two …

Purpose Identifying children with primary or specific language impairment (LI) in languages
other than English continues to present a diagnostic challenge. This study examined the …

From the first moment of life, language development occurs in the context of social activities.
This book emphasises how language development interacts with social and cognitive …

Purpose To document the lexical characteristics of neighborhood density (ND) and word
frequency (WF) in the lexicons of a large sample of English-speaking toddlers. Method …

Previous studies have observed a sex-dependent lateralization of amygdala activation
related to emotional memory. Specifically, it was shown that the activity of the right amygdala …

A longitudinal study of lexical development in very young French–English bilinguals is
reported. The Computerized Comprehension Test (CCT) was used to directly assess …