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: Received: 30 April 2023 / Approved: 30 April 2023 / Online: 30 April 2023 (09:36:21 CEST)
How to cite:
Kis, O.; Földi, F.; Jakab, K.; Klivényi, P.; Steklács, J. The Role of Working Memory in Adult Aphasic Reading Comprehension. Preprints2023, 2023041272. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.1272.v1
Kis, O.; Földi, F.; Jakab, K.; Klivényi, P.; Steklács, J. The Role of Working Memory in Adult Aphasic Reading Comprehension. Preprints 2023, 2023041272. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.1272.v1
Kis, O.; Földi, F.; Jakab, K.; Klivényi, P.; Steklács, J. The Role of Working Memory in Adult Aphasic Reading Comprehension. Preprints2023, 2023041272. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.1272.v1
APA Style
Kis, O., Földi, F., Jakab, K., Klivényi, P., & Steklács, J. (2023). The Role of Working Memory in Adult Aphasic Reading Comprehension. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.1272.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Kis, O., Péter Klivényi and János Steklács. 2023 "The Role of Working Memory in Adult Aphasic Reading Comprehension" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.1272.v1
Abstract
(1) Background: Many processes play a key role in how language functions, and these processes are strongly related to reading. The aim of our research was to explore the relationship between reading impairment associated with adult acquired cognitive-linguistic impairment (aphasia) and the components of verbal working memory involved in language functioning. (2) Methods: We measured the reading abilities of a total of twenty-two adults diagnosed with aphasia using the Adult Acquired Reading Assessment. To assess working memory, we applied the measurement procedures available in Hungarian for measuring verbal working memory. Correlation analyses were performed to investigate the relationship between reading and the components of working memory involved in processing verbal information. In order to explore this relationship as comprehensively as possible, the results were analysed quantitatively through group-level analyses and qualitatively through case studies. (3) Results: The results suggest that the functioning of phonological short-term memory and verbal working memory is crucial for the reading of vowels, for certain word reading sub-processes such as reading complex words and pseudowords, and for text comprehension tasks, in particular for the processing of implicit text-level infor-mation. (4) Conclusions: The data support a strong relationship between reading and working memory, but not all mechanisms are related with the same weighting. The data will contribute to the understanding of the relationship between reading and working memory, which is important in order to see which cognitive components are dominant in reading instruction and which other cognitive mechanisms are affected in poor readers.
Keywords
adult reading; working memory; aphasia; acquired reading disorder
Subject
Social Sciences, Cognitive Science
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