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Visuospatial immediate memory in specific language impairment.

Lisa M D Archibald1, Susan E Gathercole

  • 1Department of Psychology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom. l.m.archibald@durham.ac.uk

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
|May 5, 2006
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Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show normal visuospatial memory. This contrasts with their known verbal short-term and working memory deficits.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is characterized by difficulties in verbal short-term and working memory.
  • Phonological storage and processing are often implicated in SLI.
  • The extent to which these memory deficits affect other cognitive domains is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate visuospatial short-term and working memory in children with SLI.
  • To determine if verbal memory impairments in SLI extend to the visuospatial domain.

Main Methods:

  • A group of 15 children with SLI participated.
  • Control groups matched for chronological age and language age were included.
  • Tests of visuospatial short-term and working memory were administered.

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Main Results:

  • Children with SLI performed similarly to age-matched controls on visuospatial memory tasks.
  • The SLI group outperformed the language-age control group on several measures.
  • Visuospatial working memory abilities were age-appropriate in the SLI group.

Conclusions:

  • Specific Language Impairment (SLI) does not appear to affect visuospatial short-term and working memory.
  • These findings highlight a dissociation between verbal and visuospatial memory in SLI.
  • This suggests domain-specific memory impairments in children with SLI.