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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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Working memory and fluid intelligence: capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval.
TL;DR: The results demonstrated that capacity, attention control, and secondary memory were uniquely related to WM storage, WM processing, and gF, suggesting that individual differences in capacity and attention control jointly account forindividual differences in WM and its relation with gF.
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Implications of Cognitive Theory for Instruction in Problem Solving
TL;DR: In this article, a review of cognitive theories of problem solving and suggestions made by cognitive psychologists regarding how to teach problem solving are reviewed, and the results are summarized in a description of how high levels of proficiency in problem solving were acquired and how problem solving skills might best be taught, keeping in mind a distinction between well-and ill-structured problems.
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Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education
TL;DR: The historical roots and conceptual development of the concept are examined, the nature of cognitive developmental improvements in working memory is explored, the role of working memory in learning, and some potential implications ofWorking memory and its development for the education of children and adults are explored.
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Effects of Age on Auditory and Cognitive Processing: Implications for Hearing Aid Fitting and Audiologic Rehabilitation
TL;DR: It is argued that a synthesis of new knowledge concerning the functional neuroscience of auditory cognition is necessary to inform the design and fitting of digital signal processing in “intelligent” hearing devices, as well as to inform best practices for resituating hearing aid fitting in a broader context of audiologic rehabilitation.
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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.