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Procedural learning across modalities in French-speaking children with specific language impairment
Gabriel, Audrey; Meulemans, Thierry; Parisse, Christophe et al.
2014In Applied Psycholinguistics
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Keywords :
SLI; procedural memory
Abstract :
[en] It has been suggested that the language problems encountered in specific language impairment (SLI) arise from basal ganglia abnormalities that lead to impaired procedural memory. However, recent serial reaction time (SRT) studies did not reveal any differences between the SLI and typically developing (TD) groups on the measures of procedural memory linked to visual sequence learning. In this paper, 16 children with and without SLI were compared on two versions of SRT tasks: a visual task and an auditory one. The results showed that children with SLI were as fast as their TD peers in both modalities. All of the children obtained similar specific sequence learning indices, indicating that they were able to detect regularities in both modalities. Although children with SLI were as accurate as their TD peers for the visual SRT task, they made more errors than their TD peers in auditory SRT conditions. The results indicate that, in relation to procedural memory, the core of the impairment in SLI is not linked to difficulties in the detection of regularities. We argue that when children with SLI present some difficulties, the children’s weaknesses might depend on the type of processing involved (e.g., tasks involving auditory sequences).
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Gabriel, Audrey ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Logopédie clinique
Meulemans, Thierry ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Doyen de la Faculté de Psychologie et des sc. de l'éducation
Parisse, Christophe
Maillart, Christelle  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Logopédie clinique
Language :
English
Title :
Procedural learning across modalities in French-speaking children with specific language impairment
Publication date :
2014
Journal title :
Applied Psycholinguistics
ISSN :
0142-7164
eISSN :
1469-1817
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press
Peer reviewed :
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