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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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Predictors of multitasking performance in a synthetic work paradigm
TL;DR: This paper investigated determinants of success in a "synthetic work" task designed to reflect the requirement for multitasking that is common to many occupations, and found that WMC was a strong predictor of multitasking in a non-emergency condition when the pace of the tasks was relatively slow.
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The strong connection between sensory and cognitive performance in old age: not due to sensory acuity reductions operating during cognitive assessment.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors administered cognitive tasks used in prior studies to middle-aged adults under age-simulation conditions of reduced visual acuity, auditory acuity or both.
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Intelligence and working memory systems: evidence of neural efficiency in alpha band ERD
TL;DR: Correlational analyses revealed associations between the amount of ERD in the upper alpha band and intelligence in several brain regions and stronger associations between ERD and intelligence were found for fluid rather than crystallized intelligence.
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Disruption of cognitive function in fibromyalgia syndrome.
Bruce D. Dick,Michelle J. Verrier,Michelle J. Verrier,K. Troy Harker,Saifudin Rashiq,Saifudin Rashiq +5 more
TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that pain in FMS may play an important role in cognitive disruption, and point to disrupted working memory as a specific mechanism that is disrupted in this population.
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Skill Development in Different Components of Arithmetic and Basic Cognitive Functions: Findings From a 3-Year Longitudinal Study of Children With Different Types of Learning Difficulties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the cognitive and cognitive skills of children with mathematical difficulties (MD-only), with comorbid reading difficulties, with reading difficulties only, and normally achieving children were examined at 3 points from Grades 3-4 to Grades 5-6 (age range, 9-13 years).
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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.