Are items actively removed from working memory during free time in children with developmental language disorder?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have deficits in verbal and non-verbal processing relative to typically developing (TD) peers, potentially reflecting difficulties in working memory, processing speed and inhibition of interference. We examined working memory in children with DLD using the serial-order-in-a-box-complex span (SOB-CS) interference-based model, which posits a time-based mechanism, free time, that governs how interference affects processing performance.

Aims

(1) To determine the degree to which children with DLD and TD children differ in the amount of free time available during working memory tasks, and whether potential group differences in free time differ depending on the domain of task demands? (2) To determine the relationship b

SUBMITTER: Larson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509408 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature