Hi, just saw this thread and wanted to add a piece to the puzzle. Working memory is a shared space for all the conscious/near-conscious stuff going on in the mind.
If your child is curious, analytical, and creative then what may really be going on is they are running a good percentage of their working memory on entertaining thoughts and looking for deeper understandings.
Zen, thank you. I do believe this may be what's going on with my DS6. He is constantly creating. He always writing stories in his head. He has "witten" books with over 20 chapters. He dictates them I type them verbatium (incidentally his books are actually good - on par with patterson - complicated sci fi plots invoving time travel, etc ) . He is very very creative. He is often making up stories in his head to dictate to me later. I think that is takign up a lot of WM space. Also he does have a vision disorder so I assume that compensating mfor that may be taking up space as well.
