Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 153-160.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.02.01

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Proactive Interference Effects on the Orthographic-working Memory in Chinese Children with Spelling Difficulties

WEN Kailing, CHEN Ping, YANG Shuang, NING Ning   

  1. School of Education, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123
  • Published:2022-03-24

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Abstract: The orthographic working memory (O-WM) is the temporal storage of radicals during Chinese character writing. One of the key functions of O-WM is maintaining the representational distinctiveness of radicals. Literatures on the O-WM system of Chinese writing processes are mainly from the case studies on dysgraphia patients, O-WM deficits in Chinese children with spelling difficulties have rarely been reported. The present study investigated the visual and auditory proactive interference (PI) effects on radical recognition in two experiments separately. Results showed that:(1) the visual PI effect was found in children with spelling difficulties, but not in the control group (Exp.1); (2) the auditory PI effects were not observed in both groups (Exp.2). The results indicate that the visual representational distinctiveness function of O-WM is impaired in children with spelling difficulties, and support the view that Chinese radicals are represented in the O-WM on the basis of visual features.

Key words: spelling difficulties, proactive interference, orthographic working memory, representational distinctiveness

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  • B844
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