The research article “Assessing Complex Working Memory in Turkish-Speaking Children: The Listening Span Task Adaptation Into Turkish”, co-authored by METU member Asst. Prof. Duygu Özge, has been published in Frontiers in Psychology.
The aim of this study was to adapt the Listening Span Task (Gaulin and Campbell, 1994; Pickering and Gathercole, 2001) into Turkish (LST-T), to administer it to children in order to measure how children of different ages perform on the task and to measure its psychometric properties by providing correlations with other cognitive measures: the Word Span Test that measures phonological WM capacity, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test that measures both categorization ability and executive WM functions, and the Categorical Free Recall Test that examines both the development of the release from proactive interference pattern and the categorization ability during childhood. The results indicate that the LST-T scores increased in a significant stepwise manner without any gender difference between boys and girls. Measures of convergent validity showed significant correlations with a working memory test: the Word Span Test, and. The results demonstrate that the LST-T is an adequate tool to be used by developmentalists for a variety of purposes, ranging from developmental research to educational and clinical practice to investigate cognitive development of Turkish-speaking children.
Ünal, G., Özge, D., & Marinis, T. (2020). Assessing complex working memory in turkish-speaking children: The listening span task adaptation into turkish. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01688
Article access: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01688/full
Asst. Prof. Duygu Özge |
Web of Science/Publons Researcher ID: AAT-3279-2020 |
| duyguo@metu.edu.tr | Scopus Author ID: 56912311100 |
| About the author | ORCID: 0000-0002-1698-5479 |
Keywords:
adaptation; children; listening span task; Turkish; validity
Other authors:
Ünal G. & Marinis T.
Acknowledgments:
This study was part of the MS thesis of the first author who wishes to thank Dr. Annette Hohenberger for her support during the data collection, statistical analysis, and preparation of this work. Funding. This research was funded by the T?B?TAK-B?DEB 2228 grant (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey-Directorate of Science Fellowships and Grant Programmes).
