Who's Who? Memory Updating and Character Reference in Children's Narratives.
Purpose: The capacity to update and monitor the contents of working memory is an executive function presumed to play a critical role in language processing. The current study used an individual differences approach to consider the relationship between memory updating and accurate reference to story...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 1625 - 1637 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Oct2013
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=91624476&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 91624476 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2013 vid: 56 iid: 5 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 91624476 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0176) ppf: 1625 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 200KB tig: atl: Who's Who? Memory Updating and Character Reference in Children's Narratives. aug: au: Whitely, Cristy Colozzo, Paola affil: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada su: Canada Storytelling Memory in children Probability theory Research Research funding Short-term memory Speech evaluation Multiple regression analysis Narratives Phonological awareness Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Storytelling Canada Memory in children Probability theory Research Research funding Short-term memory Speech evaluation Multiple regression analysis Narratives Phonological awareness Data analysis software Descriptive statistics keyword: executive functions narrative production reference school-age children working memory executive functions narrative production reference school-age children working memory ab: Purpose: The capacity to update and monitor the contents of working memory is an executive function presumed to play a critical role in language processing. The current study used an individual differences approach to consider the relationship between memory updating and accurate reference to story characters in the narratives of typically developing children. Method: English-speaking children from kindergarten to grade 2 (N = 63; Mage = 7.0 years) completed updating tasks, short-term memory tasks, and narrative productions. The authors used multiple regression to test whether updating accounted for independent variability in referential adequacy. Results: The capacity to update working memory was related to adequate character reference beyond the effects of age and of short-term memory capacity, with the strongest relationship emerging for maintaining reference over multiple utterances. Conclusions: This individual differences study is the first to show a link between updating and performance in a discourse production task for young school-age children. The findings contribute to the growing body of research investigating the role of working memory in shaping language production. This study invites extension to children of different ages and language abilities as well as to other language production tasks. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|