TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing working memory in children
T2 - The comprehensive assessment battery for children-working memory (CABC-WM)
AU - Cabbage, Kathryn
AU - Brinkley, Shara
AU - Gray, Shelley
AU - Alt, Mary
AU - Cowan, Nelson
AU - Kuo, Trudy
AU - Hogan, Tiffany P.
AU - Green, Samuel
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health NIDCD Grant #R01 DC010784. We are deeply grateful to the staff, research associates, school administrators, teachers, children, and families who participated. Key personnel included (in alphabetical order) Gary Carstensen, Cecilia Figueroa, Karen Guilmette, Trudy Kuo, Bjorg LeSueur, Annelise Pesch, and Jean Zimmer. Many students also Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Visualized Experiments.
PY - 2017/6/12
Y1 - 2017/6/12
N2 - The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children-Working Memory (CABC-WM) is a computer-based battery designed to assess different components of working memory in young school-age children. Working memory deficits have been identified in children with language-based learning disabilities, including dyslexia1,2 and language impairment3,4, but it is not clear whether these children exhibit deficits in subcomponents of working memory, such as visuospatial or phonological working memory. The CABC-WM is administered on a desktop computer with a touchscreen interface and was specifically developed to be engaging and motivating for children. Although the long-term goal of the CABC-WM is to provide individualized working memory profiles in children, the present study focuses on the initial success and utility of the CABC-WM for measuring central executive, visuospatial, phonological loop, and binding constructs in children with typical development. Immediate next steps are to administer the CABC-WM to children with specific language impairment, dyslexia, and comorbid specific language impairment and dyslexia.
AB - The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children-Working Memory (CABC-WM) is a computer-based battery designed to assess different components of working memory in young school-age children. Working memory deficits have been identified in children with language-based learning disabilities, including dyslexia1,2 and language impairment3,4, but it is not clear whether these children exhibit deficits in subcomponents of working memory, such as visuospatial or phonological working memory. The CABC-WM is administered on a desktop computer with a touchscreen interface and was specifically developed to be engaging and motivating for children. Although the long-term goal of the CABC-WM is to provide individualized working memory profiles in children, the present study focuses on the initial success and utility of the CABC-WM for measuring central executive, visuospatial, phonological loop, and binding constructs in children with typical development. Immediate next steps are to administer the CABC-WM to children with specific language impairment, dyslexia, and comorbid specific language impairment and dyslexia.
KW - Behavior
KW - Binding
KW - Children
KW - Focus of attention
KW - Issue 124
KW - Phonological loop
KW - Visuospatial
KW - Working memory
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U2 - 10.3791/55121
DO - 10.3791/55121
M3 - Article
C2 - 28654032
SN - 1940-087X
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of Visualized Experiments
JF - Journal of Visualized Experiments
IS - 124
M1 - e55121
ER -