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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 functioning in developmental dyslexia
TL;DR: It seems clear that working memory difficulties in dyslexia extend into adulthood, can affect performance in both the phonological and visuospatial modalities, and implicate central executive dysfunction, in addition to problems with storage.
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Procedure for Assessing Verbal Working Memory in Normal School-Age Children: Some Preliminary Data
TL;DR: A procedure for assessing children's recall of lexical items in the presence of a competing language task is described and results of testing of 68 normal children ages 6, 8, 10, and 12 years are presented.
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Effects on the brain of a psychological treatment: cognitive remediation therapy: functional magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia.
Til Wykes,Michael Brammer,John D. C. Mellers,Peter Bray,Clare Reeder,Clare Williams,Julia Corner +6 more
TL;DR: This is the first time that brain activation changes in a seriously disabled group of patients with schizophrenia can be associated clearly with psychological rather than pharmacological therapy.
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In search of the focus of attention in working memory: 13 years of the retro-cue effect
TL;DR: The degrees of experimental support for six hypotheses about what causes the retro-cue effect are evaluated: attention protects representations from decay, attention prioritizes the selected WM contents for comparison with a probe display, attended representations are strengthened in WM, not-attended representations are removed from WM, and so on.
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Listening in aging adults: from discourse comprehension to psychoacoustics.
TL;DR: The attempts to systematically investigate sensory-cognitive interactions in controlled experimental situations are described, and it is found that age-related changes in speech understanding are a consequence of auditory declines.
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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.