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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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Processing Load Induced by Informational Masking Is Related to Linguistic Abilities
TL;DR: Regression analysis revealed that high working memory capacity, better inhibition, and better text reception were related to better speech reception thresholds, which partly explain higher processing load in complex listening conditions.
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Determinants of Success in Native and Non‐Native Listening Comprehension: An Individual Differences Approach
TL;DR: The authors found that listening comprehension for native speakers was a function of knowledge of the language and the efficiency with which one can process linguistic information, while reading comprehension for non-native speakers was also related to knowledge and reasoning ability.
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The Relation between Phonological Awareness and Working Memory.
Jane Oakhill,Fiona E. Kyle +1 more
TL;DR: Comparisons of the predictive power of both types of memory tasks on 2 measures of phonological awareness and reading ability in 7- and 8-year-olds showed that the sound categorization task has a higher working memory demand than the phoneme deletion task.
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Two types of anticipation in synchronization tapping
TL;DR: The time perception mechanism in anticipatory timing control was investigated in a synchronization tapping task and it was thought to be a dual process including the attention processing of temporal information and the embodied automatic anticipation.
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Reading Comprehension Skills of Young Adults with Childhood Diagnoses of Dyslexia
Marilyn J. Ransby,H. Lee Swanson +1 more
TL;DR: Constraints in phonological processing and naming speed mediate only some of the influence of high-order processes on reading comprehension, and adults with CD experience difficulties in WM, listening comprehension,
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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information
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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.
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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.