Role of Working Memory Storage and Attention Focus Switching in Children’s Comprehension of Spoken Object Relative Sentences

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for all the experimental tasks (𝑁=44).

Experimental tasks	Mean	SD	Range	Reliability
WM storage (percent digit recall)	70.11	16.88	35–98	.90
Attention switching	84.43	10.45	62–100	.78
OR comprehension
Accuracy	73.27	22.36	17–97	.88
Speed	2568	834	995–4255

Notes. Accuracy scores for working memory storage (WMS), attention switching accuracy, and OR comprehension are expressed as percent correct. Item reliability = Cronbach’s 𝛼 coefficient of reliability.