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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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The irrelevant sound phenomenon revisited: what role for working memory capacity?
TL;DR: Results suggest that OSPAN mediates semantic components of auditory distraction dissociable from other aspects of the irrelevant sound effect.
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Task complexity and age differences in working memory
TL;DR: This study investigated age-related differences in working memory using a modified version of the Daneman and Carpenter (1980) working memory task, which required subjects to verify a series of sentences, and then at the end of each series recall the final word of each sentence.
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Working‐memory capacity and the use of elaborative inferences in text comprehension
TL;DR: This article found that low-memory-span readers produced significantly more specific elaborations than high-span readers, and that most of the elaborations that were produced by the high−span readers were toward the end of a passage.
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Inducing agrammatic profiles in normals: Evidence for the selective vulnerability of morphology under cognitive resource limitation
TL;DR: The results suggest that this selective profile does not necessarily indicate the existence of a distinct subsystem specialized for the implicated aspects of syntax, but rather may be due to the vulnerability of these forms in the face of global resource diminution, at least in grammaticality judgment.
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On the nature of the difference between skilled and less‐skilled comprehenders
TL;DR: This article found that skilled readers engage in more constructive processing and comprehension difficulties are not the result of a defective working memory (SRT) in children with normal word recognition ability, and that comprehension difficulties were not due to a defect in the working memory.
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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.
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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.