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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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Mapping the developmental constraints on working memory span performance.
TL;DR: Investigation of constraints underlying developmental improvements in complex working memory span performance among 120 children of between 6 and 10 years of age showed that developmental improvements were driven by 2 age-related but separable factors: 1 associated with general speed of processing and 2 associated with storage ability.
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About the Distinction between Working Memory and Short-Term Memory
TL;DR: There is a crucial role for the tasks that are used to measure STM or WM and for the cognitive load reflected by factors like attention and processing speed that may covary between and within these tasks.
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Electrophysiological correlates of prosody and punctuation.
TL;DR: Six event-related brain potential (ERP) studies demonstrate that the processing of both prosodic boundaries in natural speech and commas during silent reading can determine syntax parsing immediately, suggesting that commas serve as visual triggers for covert phonological phrasing.
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Differentiating insight from non-insight problems
Kenneth Gilhooly,P. Murphy +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated whether a range of tasks that have been generally classified as requiring insight form an empirically separable group of tasks distinct from tasks generally classed as non-insight.
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Age-Related Changes in Listening Effort for Various Types of Masker Noises
TL;DR: Findings from the present study indicate that older adults require more cognitive resources than younger adults to understand speech in background noise.
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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.