Serial order versus item recall short-term memory task battery with fMRI

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A task battery contrasting short-term memory for serial order with short-term memory for item information, administered behaviorally and inside the fMRI scanner to adults with a history of developmental dyscalculia and matched controls. The design allows the article to report that participants "were impaired for serial order recall but not for item recall", and to localize serial order processing to left intraparietal cortex.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Tasks must separately probe serial order and item information to yield the dissociation

Constraints

• Administered to adults with a history of developmental dyscalculia and controls; not validated here for other groups

Target Learners

• adults with a history of developmental dyscalculia
• matched control adults

Learning Goals

• measuring serial order working memory
• measuring item short-term memory

Claims

• Dyscalculia Adults Serial Order Deficit Item Preserved [+M]
• Dyscalculia Reduced Left Intraparietal Serial Order Activation [+M]

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Key Sources

• Attout, Lucie; Salmon, Eric; Majerus, Steve. (2015). Working memory for serial order is dysfunctional in adults with a history of developmental dyscalculia: Evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging data. Developmental Neuropsychology, 40. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2015.1036993

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id	serial-order-item-recall-fmri-task-battery
title	Serial order versus item recall short-term memory task battery with fMRI
description	A task battery contrasting short-term memory for serial order with short-term memory for item information, administered behaviorally and inside the fMRI scanner to adults with a history of developmental dyscalculia an...
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-17
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