Are Working Memory Measures Free of Socioeconomic Influence?
Purpose: This study evaluated the impact of socioeconomic factors on children's performance on tests of working memory and vocabulary. Method: Twenty Brazilian children, aged 6 and 7 years, from low-income families, completed tests of working memory (verbal short-term memory and verbal complex sp...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 1580 - 1588 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
December 2008
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