Davies, Simon and Bourke, Lorna and Harrison, Neil (2019) Does audio‐visual binding as an integrative function of working memory influence the early stages of learning to write? Reading and Writing. ISSN 0922-4777
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Abstract
Working memory has been proposed to account for the differential rates in pro- gress young children make in writing. One crucial aspect of learning to write is the encoding (i.e., integration) and retrieval of the correct phoneme–grapheme pairings, known as binding. In addition to executive functions, binding is regarded as central to the concept of working memory. To test the developmental increase in binding ability and its comparative influence on writing, an experimental study assessed 5- and 6-year-olds’ accuracy in retaining and retrieving bound audio-visual information alongside measures of verbal and visual complex working memory span (i.e., cen- tral executive functions), and transcription skills (i.e., alphabet and spelling). Results demonstrated an age-related increase in the ability to bind, and that binding had sig- nificant associations with working memory and early writing ability, but once bind- ing and age were controlled for it was verbal working memory that made an inde- pendent contribution to individual differences in writing performance. Although the contribution this paper made was through an exploration and expansion of theoreti- cal ideas within writing research, it is likely to make an important practical contribu- tion to instruction in the future both at the level of transcription and text generation as writers develop those skills.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The final version is available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11145-019-09974-3 |
| Keywords: | Working memory · Central executive · Writing transcription · Audio- visual binding · Episodic buffer |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Simon Davies |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2019 13:47 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2020 00:15 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2928 |
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