ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2020
The Relationship between Executive Functions and Language Production in 5-6-Year-Old Children: Insights from Working Memory and Storytelling.
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- Defining the Characteristics of Story Production of Autistic Children: A Multilevel Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Narrative Skills and Executive Functions across Childhood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
This study examined the relationship between working memory capacity and narrative abilities in 5-6-year-old children. 269 children were assessed on their visual and verbal working memory and performed in a story retelling and a story creation (based on a single picture and on a series of pictures) tasks. The stories were evaluated on their macrostructure and microstructure. The results revealed a significant relationship between both components (verbal and visual) of working memory and the global indicators of a story's macrostructure-such as semantic completeness, semantic adequacy, programming and narrative structure-and with the indicators of a story's microstructure, such as grammatical accuracy and number of syntagmas. Yet, this relationship was systematically stronger for verbal working memory, as compared to visual working memory, suggesting that a well-developed verbal working memory leads to lexically and grammatically more accurate language production in preschool children.
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