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Can a simple, short-term memory task help to screen dyslexia?
- Source :
- Current Psychology. 41:360-368
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- Funding to support students with dyslexia in post-compulsory education is under pressure and more efficient assessments may offset some of this shortfall. We tested potential tasks for screening dyslexia: recall of adjective-noun, compared to noun-adjective, pairings (syntax) and recall of high versus low frequency letter pairings (bigrams). Students who reported themselves as dyslexic failed to show a normal syntax effect (greater recall of adjective-noun compared to noun-adjective pairings) and no significant difference in recall between the two types of bigrams whereas students who were not dyslexic showed the syntax effect and a bias towards recalling high frequency bigrams. Findings are consistent with recent explanations of dyslexia suggesting that those affected find it difficult to learn and utilise sequential long-term order information (Szmalec et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 37(5) ,1270-1279, 2011). Further, ROC curve analyses revealed both tasks showed acceptable diagnostic properties as they were able to discriminate between the two groups of participants.
- Subjects :
- Recall
Experimental psychology
Bigram
05 social sciences
Significant difference
Dyslexia
Short-term memory
Cognition
medicine.disease
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
General Psychology
Cognitive psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19364733 and 10461310
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........326ef1882e637a422f0102b49913f9cf