Interrelationships of perceptual modality, short-term memory and reading achievement.
Visual and auditory components of short-term memory and perception were used as predictors of vocabulary and comprehension components of reading for 72 children from Grades 2 to 5 in a low socio-economic rural school. All six variables were significantly intercorrelated (with the exception of visual short-term memory and auditory perception). When canonical correlation analysis was applied using the four scores measuring short-term memory and perception as predictors of the two reading scores, one was significant, and each variable made a significant contribution. Not only are short-term memory and perception a part of learning to read but both visual and auditory channels are important.
D000124:Achievement; D001307:Auditory Perception; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010465:Perception; D011932:Reading; D012424:Rural Population; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception