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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 and communicative function : The effects of chronological age and "handicap age"
TL;DR: In this paper, three classes of cognitive tests (shortterm memory, long-term memory access/recall, and verbal ability) and one class of communicative tests (visual speech reading) were administered to 49 hearing-impaired and 69 normal hearing subjects, varying in age between 23 and 75 years.
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To predict or not to predict: age-related differences in the use of sentential context.
TL;DR: The results suggest that normal aging can affect allocation of resources to different cognitive and neural pathways in achieving comprehension outcomes, and reduced and delayed effects of sentential context on processing predictable words.
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The role of the episodic buffer in working memory for language processing.
Mary Rudner,Jerker Rönnberg +1 more
TL;DR: Although the episodic buffer is not necessarily supported by executive processes and seems to be supported by different neural networks, it may operate in tandem with the central executive during effortful language processing and may suggest engagement of the phonological loop during buffer processing.
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Complex span tasks and hippocampal recruitment during working memory
Carlos C Faraco,Nash Unsworth,Jason Langley,Doug Terry,Kaiming Li,Degang Zhang,Tianming Liu,L. Stephen Miller +7 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that performance of both tasks resulted in significant activation in regions typically associated with WM function, and significant bilateral activation was observed in the hippocampus, suggesting it is recruited during WM encoding and maintenance.
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The effects of processing time and processing rate on forgetting in working memory: Testing four models of the complex span paradigm
TL;DR: Findings imply that a second rehearsal mechanism for verbal working memory, other than articulatory rehearsal, exists and that even continuous articulation does not prevent simultaneous refreshing of memory traces.
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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.