Abstract

TOMAZ, Dheyvson Fellipi de Oliveira  and  MINERVINO, Carla Alexandra da Silva Moita. WORKING MEMORY IN CHILDREN: A PRECURSOR READING SKILL?MEMÓRIA DE TRABALHO EM CRIANÇAS: UMA HABILIDADE PRECURSORA DE LEITURA?. Estud. psicol. (Natal) [online]. 2024, vol.29, e242902.  Epub Nov 10, 2025. ISSN 1413-294X.  https://doi.org/10.69909/1678-4669.20240002.

The reading process is considered complex and multifactorial, involves several cognitive abilities. Emerging writing, alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, vocabulary, rapid automatized naming and working memory (WM), are considered precursor skills of reading. The present study analysed the influence of different WM processes on the performance of the precursor skills of reading and how these processes impact on the outcome in pseudoword decoding. It was considered a sample of children from northeastern Brazil, literate in the pandemic period, aged between six and nine years, where Portuguese is the mother tongue and taught. The results of structural equation modelling indicated that different processes of verbal and visuospatial working memory impact, differently, on the performance of precursor abilities. Working memory is the fundamental skill that facilitates the integration of precursor abilities and impacts on the efficiency of the pseudoword decoding process.

Keywords : working memory; reading; neuropsychology; neuroscience; education.

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