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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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The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.
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Chapter 11 Working memory
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Sources of Method Bias in Social Science Research and Recommendations on How to Control It
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The magical number 4 in short-term memory: a reconsideration of mental storage capacity.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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Why does memory span increase with age
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that children of 4, 7, 9, and 11 years of age recall auditory digits using three sound patterns: melody, prosody, or monotone.
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Without surreptitious rehearsal, information in short-term memory decay
TL;DR: In this paper, the decay principle of the Reitman study was examined and it was shown that 100% recall reflects not a ceiling effect but the absence of forgetting, and the lack of disruption of interpolated detection performance indicates lack of rehearsal.
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Interactive processes in reading comprehension
TL;DR: This paper argued that memory deactivation due to breakdowns in the synchrony of coding and comprehension subcomponents is a major source of individual skill differences in reading comprehension, and provided evidence that less skilled readers show slower or less accurate performance on certain verbal processing tasks.