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Mammarella, IC, Caviola, S, Giofré, D and Szűcs, D (2017) The underlying structure of visuospatial working memory in children with mathematical learning disability. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. ISSN 2044-835X
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Abstract
This study examined visual, spatial-sequential, and spatial-simultaneous working memory (WM) performance in children with mathematical learning disability (MLD) and low mathematics achievement (LMA) compared with typically developing (TD) children. Groups were matched on reading decoding performance and verbal intelligence. Besides statistical significance testing, we used bootstrap confidence interval estimation and computed effect sizes. Children were individually tested with six computerized tasks, two for each visuospatial WM subcomponent. We found that both MLD and LMA children had low visuospatial WM function in both spatial-simultaneous and spatial-sequential WM tasks. The WM deficit was most expressed in MLD children and less in LMA children. This suggests that WM scores are distributed along a continuum with TD children achieving top scores and MLD children achieving low scores. The theoretical and practical significance of findings is discussed. Statement of Contribution What is already known on this subject? Working memory plays an important role in mathematical achievement. Children with mathematical learning disability (MLD) usually have low working memory resources. Conflicting results have been reported concerning the role of VSWM in individuals with MLD. What the present study adds? Children with different degree of impairment in math achievement and typically developing children were tested. Visual, spatial-sequential, and spatial-simultaneous working memory tasks were examined. Only spatial-sequential and spatial-simultaneous working memory tasks discriminated the two impairments groups.
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| Additional Information: | This is the accepted version of the following article: Mammarella, I. C., Caviola, S., Giofrè, D. and Szűcs, D. (2017), The underlying structure of visuospatial working memory in children with mathematical learning disability. Br J Dev Psychol. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12202, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12202 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Science |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LC Special aspects of education R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
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| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2017 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 11:14 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1111/bjdp.12202 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7073 |
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