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Working memory and phonological deficits in dyslexia Volume 10, issue 4, Octobre-Novembre-Décembre 2018

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1 SESSAD Quatre-Vaulx les Mouettes
13 rue du Jeu de Paume
22400 Lamballe, France
2 LP3C, Université Rennes 2
Place Recteur Henri le Moal
35043 Rennes cedex, France
* Correspondance

This paper provides a review on the phonological deficits and their relationships with working and short-term memory in developmental dyslexia. The phonological theory states that developmental dyslexia follows from a dysfunction at the level of phonological representations. However, people suffering from dyslexia show more severe deficits in the phonological processes that involve other cognitive abilities such as working and short-term memory. While difficulties at the level of the phonological loop were emphasized by reference to the first models of short-term memory, the studies that rely on more recent theoretical models are more prone to evoke serial deficits in working and short-term memory. The overall results invite to reconsider, both at the theoretical and clinical application levels, the relationship between working and short-term memory in developmental dyslexia.

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