id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ejop-744	Guarnera, Maria; D’Amico, Antonella	Training of Attention in Children With Low Arithmetical Achievement	2014	14	.pdf	application/pdf	7632	321	49	Even if the results of different studies are sometimes inconsistent with regard to the functioning of verbal short term memory (see Raghubar, Barnes, & Hecht, 2010, for a review), there is a general agreement about the relationship between children’s arithmetical skills and their performance in visuo-spatial tasks (D’Amico & Guarnera, 2005; McLean & Hitch, 1999) and working memory tasks involving central executive abilities. Indeed, many studies demonstrated that children with Arithmetical Learning Disabilities (ALD) do not always show difficulties in working memory tasks requiring lower executive resources, such as backward word span tasks or digit span tasks (D’Amico & Guarnera, 2005; Fuchs et al., 2008; Passolunghi & Cornoldi, 2008; Reuhkala, 2001; Siegel & Ryan, 1989; Swanson & Beebe-Frankenberger, 2004; van der Sluis, van der Leij, & de Jong, 2005), while they more consistently fail in tasks, such as the listening span task and the counting span task, requiring specific executive processes such as inhibitory control, updating, and attention switching, in line with models of working memory that focus on the importance of attentional control (e.g., Engle, 2002).	cache/ejop-744.pdf	txt/ejop-744.txt