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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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Cognitive processes that underlie mathematical precociousness in young children
TL;DR: The results support the notion that the executive system is an important predictor of children's mathematical precociousness and that this system can operate independent of individual differences in the phonological loop, inhibition, and reading in predicting mathematical accuracy.
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Humans use Compression Heuristics to Improve the Recall of Social Networks
TL;DR: It is shown that humans adaptively use compression heuristics to allow larger amounts of social information to be stored in the same brain volume, and that human adults can remember larger numbers of relationships in greater detail when a network exhibits triadic closure and kin labels.
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Event-related brain potentials suggest a late interaction of meter and syntax in the p600
TL;DR: First event-related potential evidence that the metric structure of a given language is processed in two stages is provided as evidenced in a biphasic pattern of an early frontal negativity and a late posterior positivity.
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Understanding the role of executive control in the implicit association test: why flexible people have small IAT effects.
TL;DR: The findings constrain process accounts of the IAT, lending support to an account in terms of task-set switching, and they have consequences for applications.
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Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: A Comparison of Off-Line vs. On-Line Sentence Processing
TL;DR: Data are used to argue that sentence comprehension impairments are related to verbal working memory deficits in AD.
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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.