Short-Term Memory Coding in Children With Intellectual Disabilities
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Short-term memory coding in children with intellectual disabilities.
To examine visual and verbal coding strategies, I asked children with intellectual disabilities and peers matched for MA and CA to perform picture memory span tasks with phonologically similar, visually similar, long, or nonsimilar named items. The CA group showed effects consistent with advanced verbal memory coding (phonological similarity and word length effects). Neither the intellectual di...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal on Mental Retardation
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0895-8017
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2008)113[187:smcicw]2.0.co;2