We report a two-year longitudinal study aimed at investigating the rate of access to numerical and nonnumerical 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.

D'AMICO, A., PASSOLUNGHI, M.C. (2009). Naming speed and effortful and automatic inhibition in children with arithmetic learning disabilities. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 19(2), 170-180 [10.1016/j.lindif.2009.01.001].

Naming speed and effortful and automatic inhibition in children with arithmetic learning disabilities.

D'AMICO, Antonella;
2009-01-01

Abstract

We report a two-year longitudinal study aimed at investigating the rate of access to numerical and nonnumerical 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.
2009
D'AMICO, A., PASSOLUNGHI, M.C. (2009). Naming speed and effortful and automatic inhibition in children with arithmetic learning disabilities. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 19(2), 170-180 [10.1016/j.lindif.2009.01.001].
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