Journal of Learning Disabilities, May 1st, 2001
This study focuses on the relationship between working memory and mathematics ability across a broad age span. Although it is known that working memory functioning improves throughout childhood, adolescence, and into early adulthood and then declines in older adults (e.g., Dempster, 1992; Salthouse, 1995; Verhaeghen & Salthouse, 1997), it is not known whether these same trends occur when mathematics ability is considered (Widaman & Little, 1992). Most studies related to mathematics and working memory (WM) have focused on either children and adolescents (e.g., Bull, Johnston, & Roy, 1999; Dar...
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