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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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A new tool for measuring and understanding individual differences in the component processes of reading comprehension
Brenda Hannon,Meredyth Daneman +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposed a measure of individual differences in reading comprehension ability that is theoretically motivated, is easy to administer, and has high predictive power, which has the potential for advancing researchers' understanding and measurement of a range of linguistic and cognitive tasks.
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Effects of adult age on structural and operational capacities in working memory.
TL;DR: Young and older adults exhibited similar effects of the number of potentially relevant variables and of the numbers of required processing operations, but older adults were generally less accurate than young adults.
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Working Memory Capacity Predicts Dopamine Synthesis Capacity in the Human Striatum
TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time thatWorking memory capacity as measured by listening span predicts dopamine synthesis capacity in the striatum, indicating that subjects with low working memory capacity have low DA synthesis capacity at baseline in the Striatum, whereas subjects with high working memory Capacity have high DA synthesis Capacity in thestriatum.
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The structure of verbal abilities in young and older adults.
Susan Kemper,Aaron Sumner +1 more
TL;DR: The structure of verbal abilities in young and older adults is somewhat different, suggesting age differences in processing efficiency, and propositional density was associated with the fluency measures as a measure of processing efficiency.
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Strategy training and working memory task performance.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how strategy use influences working memory span performance and the correlation between WM span scores and higher cognitive function, using the operation span measure and the Nelson-Denny assessment of reading ability.
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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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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.