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Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Compared verbal and visuo-spatial working memory (WM) performance under initial, gain, and maintenance conditions for nine age groups from 6 to 57 years to determine if differences were attributable to specific or general processing functions. Found support for a general-capacity explanation of age-related differences, reflecting demands placed on…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Examined whether age-related working memory deficits in learning disabled (LD) readers across four age groups (7, 10, 13, and 20) reflected retrieval efficiency or storage capacity problems. Found that LD readers' working memory performance was inferior to skilled readers' on verbal and visual-spatial working memory tasks across all ages.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
