Individual differences in working memory and comprehension: a test of four hypotheses. Engle, R. W., Cantor, J., & Carullo, J. J. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 18(5):972–992, 1992. abstract bibtex A relationship has consistently been found between measures of working memory and reading comprehension. Four hypotheses for this relationship were tested in 3 experiments. In the first 2 experiments, a moving window procedure was used to present the operation-word and reading span tasks. High- and low-span subjects did not differentially trade off time on the elements of the tasks and the to-be-remembered word. Furthermore, the correlation between span and comprehension was undiminished when the viewing times were partialed out. Experiment 3 compared a traditional experimenter-paced simple word-span and a subject-paced span in their relationship with comprehension. The experimenter-paced word-span correlated with comprehension but the subject-paced span did not. The results of all 3 experiments support a general capacity explanation for the relationship between working memory and comprehension.
@Article{Engle1992,
author = {R. W. Engle and J. Cantor and J. J. Carullo},
journal = {J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn},
title = {Individual differences in working memory and comprehension: a test of four hypotheses.},
year = {1992},
number = {5},
pages = {972--992},
volume = {18},
abstract = {A relationship has consistently been found between measures of working
memory and reading comprehension. Four hypotheses for this relationship
were tested in 3 experiments. In the first 2 experiments, a moving
window procedure was used to present the operation-word and reading
span tasks. High- and low-span subjects did not differentially trade
off time on the elements of the tasks and the to-be-remembered word.
Furthermore, the correlation between span and comprehension was undiminished
when the viewing times were partialed out. Experiment 3 compared
a traditional experimenter-paced simple word-span and a subject-paced
span in their relationship with comprehension. The experimenter-paced
word-span correlated with comprehension but the subject-paced span
did not. The results of all 3 experiments support a general capacity
explanation for the relationship between working memory and comprehension.},
institution = {Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208.},
keywords = {Adult; Attention; Humans; Individuality; Memory, Short-Term; Mental Recall; Reaction Time; Reading; Retention (Psychology)},
language = {eng},
medline-pst = {ppublish},
pmid = {1402719},
timestamp = {2011.02.24},
}
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