title: Auditory working memory and early reading skills in Hebrew-speaking preschool children.
abstract: The hypothesis that different subcomponents of auditory working memory are differentially related to early reading skills was tested in 63 Hebrew speaking 4-year-old children, using a battery of early reading (phonological processing and familiarity with written language) and memory (simple and complex spans) tasks. Complex spans accounted for significant amounts of variance on both facets of early reading even after the contribution of simple spans was accounted for. These findings suggest that the unique contribution of complex working memory to early reading can be identified as early as preschool and that the structure of correlations between reading and memory is similar across ages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. kbanai@research.haifa.ac.il
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Banai
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yifat
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011932:Reading