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Individual differences in working memory and reading
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The reading span, the number of final words recalled, varied from two to five for 20 college students and was correlated with three reading comprehension measures, including verbal SAT and tests involving fact retrieval and pronominal reference.About:
This article is published in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 6041 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reading span task & Memory span.read more
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Comparison of four scoring methods for the reading span test.
Naomi P. Friedman,Akira Miyake +1 more
TL;DR: Four common methods for scoring a popular working memory span task, Daneman and Carpenter’s (1980) reading span test, found that more continuous measures were more normally distributed, had higher reliability, and had higher correlations with criterion measures.
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Cognitive processing load across a wide range of listening conditions: Insights from pupillometry
TL;DR: It is concluded that the pupil response is sensitive to processing load, and possibly reflects cognitive overload in difficult conditions, and seems affected by methodological aspects and individual abilities, but does not reflect subjective ratings.
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The Relations Between Children’s Reading Comprehension, Working Memory, Language Skills and Components of Reading Decoding in a Normal Sample
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the strongest independent predictors of reading comprehension using word reading, language and memory variables in a normal sample of 180 children in grades 3-5, with a range of word reading skills.
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A survey of research on text simplification
TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to summarise the large interdisciplinary body of work on text simplification and highlight the most promising research directions to move the field forward.
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A probabilistic model of visual working memory: Incorporating higher order regularities into working memory capacity estimates.
TL;DR: A probabilistic model of change detection is presented that attempts to bridge the gap by formalizing the role of perceptual organization and allowing for richer, more structured memory representations.
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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information
TL;DR: The theory of information as discussed by the authors provides a yardstick for calibrating our stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of our subjects and provides a quantitative way of getting at some of these questions.
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The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information
TL;DR: The theory provides us with a yardstick for calibrating the authors' stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of their subjects, and the concepts and measures provided by the theory provide a quantitative way of getting at some of these questions.
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A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing
TL;DR: The present paper shows how the extended theory can account for results of several production experiments by Loftus, Juola and Atkinson's multiple-category experiment, Conrad's sentence-verification experiments, and several categorization experiments on the effect of semantic relatedness and typicality by Holyoak and Glass, Rips, Shoben, and Smith, and Rosch.
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Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.
TL;DR: Tested the 2-process theory of detection, search, and attention presented by the current authors (1977) in a series of experiments and demonstrated the qualitative difference between 2 modes of information processing: automatic detection and controlled search.
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Toward a model of text comprehension and production.
Walter Kintsch,Teun A. van Dijk +1 more
TL;DR: The semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and at a more global macrolevel, and a model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts for the formation of a coherent semantic text base in terms of a cyclical process constrained by limitations of working memory.