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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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Individual differences in working memory
TL;DR: The findings from three areas of working memory research suggest that working memory depends on a combination of domain-specific representational systems and domain-general processing and control systems, and thatWorking memory measures capture individuals' ability to combine maintenance and processing demands in a manner that limits information loss from forgetting or distraction.
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The complexities of complex span: Explaining individual differences in working memory in children and adults.
TL;DR: Results show that complex span performance was independently constrained by individual differences in domain-general processing efficiency and domain-specific storage capacity, which challenges the view thatcomplex span taps a limited-capacity resource pool shared between processing and storage operations.
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Attention-deficit disorder (attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder without hyperactivity): a neurobiologically and behaviorally distinct disorder from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (with hyperactivity).
TL;DR: It is proposed here that the core problem in the truly inattentive type of ADHD (not simply the subthreshold combined type) is in working memory, and it is proposed that laboratory measures, such as complex-span and dual-task dichotic listening tasks, can detect this.
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The Contribution of Executive Skills to Reading Comprehension
TL;DR: Findings highlight the need for consideration of the role of EF in RCD, and examine the contribution of EF, along with attention, decoding, fluency, and vocabulary to reading comprehension in 60 children ages 9–15 years.
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Age-group differences in speech identification despite matched audiometrically normal hearing: Contributions from auditory temporal processing and cognition
TL;DR: The results suggest that declines in speech perception in older persons are partly caused by cognitive and perceptual changes separate from age-related changes in audiometric sensitivity.
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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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A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing
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Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.
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Toward a model of text comprehension and production.
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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.