[en] We report the case of a 20-year-old woman, CS, with Williams syndrome, who showed particularly well developed language abilities (especially lexical abilities) in spite of severe visuospatial and visuoconstructive deficits. In addition, CS demonstrated a (quasi-)normal functioning of phonological short-term memory. Finally, she performed normally on a paired-associate word - non-word learning task, while being dramatically impaired in the memorization of word-word pairs. These findings corroborate the existence of a link between the phonological working memory and long-term phonological learning of new words. They also confirm that the acquisition of the phonological form of new words may occur even in the presence of a defective verbal episodic memory.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Barisnikov, Koviljka; Inst. de Pédagogie Curative, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Département de Psychologie
Poncelet, Martine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Logopédie > Neuropsychologie du langage et des apprentissages
Language :
English
Title :
Acquisition of new words and phonological working memory in Williams syndrome: A case study
Publication date :
1996
Journal title :
Neurocase: Case Studies in Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neurology
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