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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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Reliable individual-level neural markers of high-level language processing: A necessary precursor for relating neural variability to behavioral and genetic variability
Kyle Mahowald,Evelina Fedorenko +1 more
TL;DR: The distributions of the values for four key neural measures of language activity are characterized and the relationship among the different regions of the language system is evaluated, and some conclusions are likely to generalize to the rest of the brain.
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Listening text comprehension in preschoolers: a longitudinal study on the role of semantic components
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study analyzed which lower and higher-level semantic components uniquely predicted listening text comprehension and the nature of the relation (i.e., direct and indirect) between the predictors and reading comprehension in preschoolers.
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The Effects of Lower-Level Processing Skills on FL Reading Performance: Implications for Instruction.
TL;DR: This paper found that low quality (i.e., slow and inaccurate) verbal processing skills produce individual differences in reading comprehension even among college-level L1 readers as well (e.g., 28, 29, 13, 13; 47).
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Academic and Cognitive Characteristics of Persistent Mathematics Difficulty from First Through Fourth Grade
Rose K. Vukovic,Linda S. Siegel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the academic and cognitive characteristics of persistent mathematics difficulty (MD-p) from first to fourth grade were investigated, and the results indicated that the MD-p group was more likely than other groups to have deficits in calculation, practical problem solving, number facts, and reading.
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The early stages of reading: A longitudinal study.
Nick C. Ellis,Barbara Large +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied 40 children as they began to learn to read at 5 years old and as they developed their skill up to 7 years old, and the data for the whole group of children were analyzed in several ways: (1) at each year the patterns of associates of reading skill were determined (with and without control for IQ); (2) the abilities at one point in time which were associated with later reading skill are charted for the entire group, for a subset of children who at 5 year old started with no reading skill, and for another group
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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.