Individual differences in working memory and reading
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...Along with an analogous reading span task (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980), the operation span task (Turner & Engle, 1989) has been used as a measure of working memory capacity that strongly implicates the operations of the central executive (Engle, Tuholski, Laughlin, & Conway, 1999b) and is predictive…...
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...…performance on these tasks predict reasoning, planning, problem-solving, and a variety of other cognitive abilities (Carpenter, Just, & Shell, 1990; Daneman & Carpenter, 1980; Daneman & Merikle, 1996; Fukuda, Vogel, Mayr, & Awh, 2010; Just & Carpenter, 1992), demonstrating the importance of having…...
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...Consider, for example, the working memory span task of Daneman and Carpenter (1980) in which the subject must read sentences and also retain the final word of each sentence....
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...It is at first puzzling to think that subjects could do this well, inasmuch as they might need some of the capacity-limited storage space for processing the sentences (unless storage and processing demands are totally separate as suggested by Daneman & Carpenter 1980 and by Halford et al. 1998)....
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...(View 6) There are separate capacity limits for storage versus processing (Daneman & Carpenter 1980; Halford et al. 1998)....
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