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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 for Comprehension and Following Directions
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which individual differences in working memory capacity were related to differences in comprehension and following direction was studied in first, third, and sixth graders, and the relationship between the span measures and following directions indicated that the role of working memory in following directions increased with age.
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Working Memory and Reading: A Life-span Perspective:
TL;DR: The relationships among working memory, memory span, and reading skills were studied in 1266 individuals, aged 6-49 as discussed by the authors, who were administered tests of word recognition, pseudoword decoding, reading and reading comprehension.
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Age and the availability of inferences.
Verneda P. Hamm,Lynn Hasher +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, age differences in inference availability and memory were investigated using a speeded decision procedure and cued recall, showing that older adults read passages that directly suggested either a target inference or an incorrect, competing inference before finally supporting the target inference.
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Error monitoring in speech production: a computational test of the perceptual loop theory.
TL;DR: A theory of speech monitoring that assumes that the quality of one's speech is checked by the speech comprehension system is formalized by way of formalizing it as a computational model and it is concluded that including an inner loop through thespeech comprehension system generates predictions that fit the empirical data.
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Developmental consequences of poor phonological short-term memory function in childhood: a longitudinal study.
TL;DR: Persistently poor phonological memory skills do not appear to significantly constrain the acquisition of language, mathematics or number skills over the early school years, however, more general working memory skills appear to be crucial.
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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.