Improving Working Memory in Learning and Intellectual Disabilities

• Päätekijä: Silvia Lanfranchi (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Barbara Carretti (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Sarja: Frontiers Research Topics
• Aiheet: Psychology; Intellectual Disabilities; working memory training; ADHD; Adaptive training; school outcomes; transfer effects; executive functions; Learning disabilities; short-term memory; Maintenance effects
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The last forty years of research have demonstrated that working memory (WM) is a key concept for understanding higher-order cognition. To give an example, WM is involved in reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning, but also in a number of everyday life activities. It has a clear role in...