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An Investigation of Sentence Production, Working Memory & Task Demands in School-Age Children |
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Amy Costanza-Smith - Oregon Health & Science University
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Truman Coggins - University of Washington
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2005 |
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| - Assessment |
| - Cognition/Language |
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Recent interest in working memory has provided new insights into the dynamic relationship between verbal working memory and language. The current study expands this research to explore the relationship among task demands, sentence production and general working memory.
Thirty-six typically developing children produced sentences with systematic increases in task demands. The number of grammatical errors was compared to both visual and verbal working memory tasks to determine the correlation between general working memory and sentence production in younger and older school-age children.
Results reveal that younger children produced more errors than older children when required to create complex sentences. Furthermore, the younger children’s responses to task demands in sentence production was related to their general working memory. As expected, the less efficient working memory systems of younger children were related to their less efficient language processing skills. Visual working memory was related to sentence production for both groups, indicating the need to consider a more general working memory system when exploring the relationship between language and working memory.
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