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Practitioner Review: Verbal Working Memory Development and its Disorders
Author(s) -
Hulme Charles,
Roodenrys Steven
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01297.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology
Working memory refers to the systems responsible for the temporary storage and manipulation of information during the performance of cognitive tasks. There is good deal of evidence that verbal short‐teem memory function as a working system. We review advances in our understanding of the nature and limitations of verbal short‐term memory and the reasons for its development with age, and go on to consider the common association between impairments of verbal short‐term memory and other impairments of cognitive development. We conclude by considering the relationship between short‐term memory development and cognitive development.