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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:Â
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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Human cognitive flexibility depends on dopamine D2 receptor signaling
Mieke van Holstein,Esther Aarts,Marieke E. van der Schaaf,Marieke E. van der Schaaf,Dirk E. M. Geurts,Dirk E. M. Geurts,Robbert J. Verkes,Barbara Franke,Martine R. van Schouwenburg,Martine R. van Schouwenburg,Roshan Cools,Roshan Cools +11 more
TL;DR: Investigating whether effects of the dopamine receptor agonist bromocriptine on task-set switching were abolished by pretreatment with the D2 receptor antagonist sulpiride provides strong evidence in favor of the hypothesis that human cognitive flexibility implicates dopamine D2 receptors signaling.
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Sensitive periods differentiate processing of open- and closed-class words: an ERP study of bilinguals.
TL;DR: The authors examined whether the neural processes for open-and closed-class words are differentially affected by delays in second-language immersion and found that the N400 elicited by semantic anomalies (open class words that violated semantic expectation) displayed increased peak latencies for only the later-learning bilingual speakers (>11 years).
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Memory systems analyses of mnemonic disorders in aging and age-related diseases
TL;DR: Study of intact and impaired memory in age-related diseases suggest that normal aging has markedly different effects upon different memory systems, specifically neural networks that mediate specific mnemonic processes.
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Short-term storage in reading.
TL;DR: This article showed that the interruption effect did not depend on a shift from one cognitive operation to another, and that general, thematic information was not the critical factor carried forward in short-term storage.
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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.