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Complex phonological awareness tasks depend on more than just phonological processing, involving crucial working memory and executive attention skills in children. This highlights the need for multi-componential interventions for reading difficulties.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Phonological awareness (PA) is crucial for reading, but tasks vary in cognitive demands.
  • Dyslexia may involve multiple cognitive risk factors, supporting multi-level and complex modularity models of reading.
  • Task structure influences cognitive module engagement according to dynamic, graded organizational theories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate cognitive functions predicting performance on a complex PA task (spoonerism).
  • To examine the relationship between working memory, executive attention, and spoonerism performance in fourth-grade students.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed 115 fourth-grade Italian students on a spoonerism task.
  • Utilized verbal (alpha span test) and visuospatial (object updating task) working memory assessments.
  • Employed Gaussian graphical models to analyze cognitive function associations.

Main Results:

  • Lower working memory capacity correlated with poorer spoonerism performance.
  • Spoonerism performance showed strong associations with visuospatial working memory (object updating task, r=0.47) and verbal working memory (alpha span test, r=0.33).
  • Results underscore the significant role of general working memory in complex phonological tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Complex PA tasks engage broader cognitive systems beyond phonological processing.
  • Findings support dynamic modularity theories where task demands shape cognitive module involvement.
  • In children, reliance on executive attention for these tasks suggests incomplete automatization and highlights the need for targeted, multi-componential interventions for reading difficulties.