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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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Reading for Repetition and Reading for Translation: Do They Involve the Same Processes?.
Pedro Macizo,M. Teresa Bajo +1 more
TL;DR: In four experiments, translators or bilinguals read sentences for repetition or for translation, and a pattern of results provides support for horizontal theories of translation.
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Perspective Effects on Online Text Processing
TL;DR: Results showed that the time course of the perspective effect varied with memory span: high-span readers showed a perspective relevance effect on initial reading of the target segments, whereas low- span readers showed the effect only in the later look backs.
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On the role of prior knowledge and task demands in the processing of text
TL;DR: Daneman and Carpenter as discussed by the authors used the reading span measure as an index of processing efficiency and found that domain knowledge influences processing at a situational model or mental model level but not at a micro-level or propositional level.
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Younger and older adults' on-line processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences.
Karen A. Kemtes,Susan Kemper +1 more
TL;DR: An online reading paradigm was used to examine the working memory capacity-constrained sentence processing model from M.A. Carpenter (1992), and working memory span, type of syntactic ambiguity (ambiguous vs. unambiguous), and type of Syntactic ambiguity resolution (main verb vs. relative clause) interacted to influence younger and older adults' on-line reading times and off-line sentence comprehension.
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The influence of self-efficacy and working memory capacity on problem solving efficiency
Bobby Hoffman,Gregory Schraw +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of self-efficacy beliefs and working memory capacity on mathematical problem-solving performance, response time, and efficiency (i.e., the ratio of problems solved correctly to time).
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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.