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Direct linkCairns, Peter; Jarrold, Christopher – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Non-word repetition, in which participants hear and repeat unfamiliar verbal stimuli, is thought to provide a particularly sensitive measure of verbal short-term memory capacity. However, performance on this task can also be constrained by hearing and speech production skills, and by an individuals' linguistic knowledge. This study examined real…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Verbal Stimuli, Speech, Correlation
Brock, Jon; Jarrold, Christopher – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Individuals with Down syndrome consistently perform less well than appropriately matched comparison groups on tests of verbal short-term memory, despite performing relatively well on non-verbal short-term memory tasks. However, it is not clear whether these findings constitute evidence for a selective deficit in verbal short-term…
Descriptors: Serial Ordering, Reaction Time, Down Syndrome, Short Term Memory
