Linking memory and language: Evidence for a serial-order learning impairment in dyslexia.

The Nature of Verbal Short-Term Impairment in Dyslexia: The Importance of Serial Order

Verbal short-term memory (STM) impairment is one of the most consistent associated deficits observed in developmental reading disorders such as dyslexia. Few studies have addressed the nature of this STM impairment, especially as regards the ability to temporarily store serial order information. This question is important as studies in typically developing children have shown that serial order ...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition No Solid Empirical Evidence for the SOLID (Serial Order Learning Impairment) Hypothesis of Dyslexia

Short-term memory for order but not for item information is impaired in developmental dyslexia.

Recent findings suggest that people with dyslexia experience difficulties with the learning of serial order information during the transition from short- to long-term memory (Szmalec et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition 37(5): 1270-1279, 2011). At the same time, models of short-term memory increasingly incorporate a distinction of order and item processing (M...

Serial-order Learning in Dyslexia 1 Running Head: Serial-order Learning in Dyslexia Order or Dis-order? Impaired Hebb Learning in Dyslexia Serial-order Learning in Dyslexia 2

The present study offers an integrative account which proposes that dyslexia and its various associated cognitive impairments reflect an underlying deficit in the long-term learning of serial-order information, here operationalized as Hebb repetition learning. In non-dyslexic individuals, improved immediate serial recall is typically observed when one particular sequence of items is repeated ac...

Serial - order learning in dyslexia 1 Running head : Serial - order learning in dyslexia

The present study offers an integrative account which proposes that dyslexia and its various associated cognitive impairments reflect an underlying deficit in the long-term learning of serial-order information, here operationalized as Hebb repetition learning. In non-dyslexic individuals, improved immediate serial recall is typically observed when one particular sequence of items is repeated ac...