the visual sketchpad (as observed in the Sternberg task, which was presented visually to the subjects on the computer screen, and in the CPC visual tasks), but also of the CE. Initial evidence for this claim comes from our finding of an increase in accuracy in the cross-modality tasks following training in both groups. It follows that cross-modality tasks are processed in the CE. By extension, word reading may also be processed in the CE, as it requires the integration of graphemes and phonemes. Performance on tasks that require pure word identification skills were also enhanced following training in both our groups, more prominent among the dyslexics (details in paragraph two of Results). This implies that direct working memory training enables larger patterns to be retained and monitored by the error monitoring system, thereby reducing the possibility of overloading the CE (see [12]).
