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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.
Akira Miyake,Naomi P. Friedman,Michael J. Emerson,Alexander H. Witzki,Amy Howerter,Tor D. Wager +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity ofExecutive functions and that latent variable analysis is a useful approach to studying the organization and roles of executive functions.
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Chapter 11 Working memory
TL;DR: This chapter demonstrates the functional importance of dopamine to working memory function in several ways and demonstrates that a network of brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, is critical for the active maintenance of internal representations.
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Sources of Method Bias in Social Science Research and Recommendations on How to Control It
TL;DR: The meaning of the terms "method" and "method bias" are explored and whether method biases influence all measures equally are examined, and the evidence of the effects that method biases have on individual measures and on the covariation between different constructs is reviewed.
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The magical number 4 in short-term memory: a reconsideration of mental storage capacity.
TL;DR: A wide variety of data on capacity limits suggesting that the smaller capacity limit in short-term memory tasks is real is brought together and a capacity limit for the focus of attention is proposed.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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Individual differences in immediate serial recall: A matter of mnemonics?
TL;DR: This paper found that immediate serial recall differences between normal adults are largely a consequence of something other than differences in rehearsal, grouping, or chunking strategies, such as presenting items too fast to allow variation in rehearsal strategy and requiring all subjects to group and chunk items in the same way.
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Hemispheric Processing and Cognitive Styles in Learning-disabled and Normal Children.
TL;DR: A paradigm of specialized brain hemisphere processing abilities was used to test cognitive skills and cognitive style in "learning-disabled" (LD) and "normal" children, and the need for information on nonverbal processing skills in order to aid verbal processing is discussed.
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Short-Term Memory Function in Young Readers.
S. Farnham-Diggory,Lee W. Gregg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, good readers and poor readers were given memory span tests, and memory scanning tests, in both auditory and visual modalities, and the major finding was that short-term memory (STM) function deteriorated over time in the poor reading group.