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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:
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Working Memory and Learning in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder and Specific Language Impairment
TL;DR: There were differential links between memory and attainment between the two groups, with visuospatial working memory strongly related to numeracy in the SLI group and all of the memory measures correlated with at least one attainment measure in the DCD group.
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Naturalistic action impairment in closed head injury.
Myrna F. Schwartz,Michael Montgomery,Laurel J. Buxbaum,Lee Ss,Tania G. Carew,H.B. Coslett,Mary Ferraro,Eileen J. Fitzpatrick-desalme,Tessa Hart,Nathaniel H. Mayer +9 more
TL;DR: The authors sought to determine whether errors of action committed by patients with closed head injury (CHI) would conform to predictions derived from frontal lobe theories; but, except for a higher proportion of omitted actions, their error profile was very similar to that of controls.
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Exploring the Relationship between Modified Output and Working Memory Capacity.
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between learners' production of modified output and their working memory (WM) capacity and found that greater processing capacity was related to greater production of modifying output during interaction.
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Cognition, metacognition, and achievement of college students with learning disabilities
Guy Trainin,H. Lee Swanson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the way successful college students with LD compensated for their deficits in phonological processing by relying on verbal abilities, learning strate- gies, and help seeking, and found that students with DL scored significantly lower than stu- dents without LD in word reading, processing speed, semantic processing, and short-term memory.
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What limits working memory capacity
TL;DR: The interference approach has its own set of difficulties but accounts best for the set of findings, and therefore, appears to present the most promising approach for future development.
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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.