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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.
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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.

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Effects of L1 orthographic representation on L2 phonological coding strategies

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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information

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The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information

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