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Naming speed and Effortful and Automatic Inhibition in Children with Arithmetic Learning Disabilities

Antonella D'amicoMaria Chiara Passolunghi

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Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia GeneraleLongitudinal studySocial PsychologyWorking memoryLong-term memoryShort-term memoryCognitionEducationSettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'EducazioneCognitive inhibitionLearning disabilityDevelopmental and Educational PsychologymedicineNegative primingmedicine.symptomPsychologyarithmetical learning disabilities mathematical disabilities naming speed negative priming working memory inhibitionCognitive psychology

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Abstract We report a two-year longitudinal study aimed at investigating the rate of access to numerical and non-numerical information in long-term memory and the functioning of automatic and effortful cognitive inhibition processes in children with arithmetical learning disabilities (ALDs). Twelve children with ALDs, of age 9.3 years, and twelve gender–age-matched controls were involved in the study. Rate of access was measured through digit- and letter-naming tasks, automatic cognitive inhibition was measured using a negative priming paradigm, and effortful cognitive inhibition was measured rating intrusion errors in a working memory task. Children with ALDs suffered from a deficit in the speed of activating both numerical and non-numerical information from long-term memory and in effortful inhibition mechanisms. No evidence for dysfunction of the automatic inhibition processes was found.

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2009-06-01
https://hdl.handle.net/11368/1906326