Poor Working Memory May Be To Blame For Children’s Under-Achievement

Children who under-achieve at school may just have poor working memory rather than low intelligence according to researchers who have produced the world’s first tool to assess memory capacity in the classroom.The researchers from Durham University, who surveyed over three thousand children, found that ten per cent of school children across all age ranges suffer from poor working memory seriously affecting their learning.

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on March 3rd, 2008