2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Individual and developmental difference in children's working memory capacity and its effect on language comprehension: Longitudinal study
| Project/Area Number |
21720144
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kumamoto Health Science University (2011)
Kyushu University (2009-2010) |
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Principal Investigator |
MIZUMOTO Go 熊本保健科学大学, 保健科学部, 講師 (20531635)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 言語発達 / 認知発達 / 心理言語学 / ワーキングメモリ |
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| Research Abstract |
The objective of the project was to demonstrate the causal relationship between children’s development of working memory capacity and language comprehension. To accomplish this objective, we conducted a longitudinal study to Japanese monolingual children from 4 to 6. From this study, we have achieved that although children’s development of working memory capacity is relatively slow, only few children who increased working memory capacity exhibit high score in the sentence comprehension task. Though the result was limited to a small group of children, we succeeded in demonstrating the relationship between working memory capacity and language comprehension development.
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