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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:
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Language-independent working memory as measured by Japanese and English reading span tests
Mariko Osaka,Naoyuki Osaka +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the efficiency of working memory capacity was measured with the use of a reading span test (RST) written in Japanese and in English and the correlation between the Japanese and ESL versions was found to be highly significant.
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Neural mechanisms of proactive interference-resolution.
TL;DR: Results indicate that both left VLPFC and left APFC are involved in the resolution of proactive interference across tasks, however, different functional networks related to each region suggest dissociable roles for the two regions.
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Phonological memory and rule learning
John N. Williams,Peter Lovatt +1 more
TL;DR: The definitive version of this article is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com Copyright Wiley [Full text of the article is not available in the UHRA].
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Working Memory and the Observed Effectiveness of Recasts on Different L2 Outcome Measures.
TL;DR: The authors examined whether the observed effectiveness of recasts is influenced by the type of outcome measure used and whether different aspects of working memory are differentially associated with learners' performance on the various outcome measures.
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Working memory abilities and children's performance in laboratory analogues of classroom activities
TL;DR: This paper found that working memory plays a significant role in typical classroom activities that involve both the storage and mental manipulation of information, and that children with low working memory skills have been observed to perform very poorly.
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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.