Working Memory Capacity: An Individual Differences Approach

Abstract

This article describes a research program addressing several issues about the role of individual differences in working memory and reading comprehension. The studies show a strong positive relationship between measures of working memory capacity and higher level measures of comprehension. More importantly, this relationship does not require that the working memory measure be a form of the comprehension measure. At least one variable known to be important in simple word span, word length, is also important to the complex working memory measures used here and elsewhere and this has important implications for theories about the link between working memory and higher level tasks, at least those of a verbal nature.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 27, 1989
Accession Number
ADA207127

Entities

People

  • Randall Engle

Organizations

  • University of South Carolina Aiken Department of Psychology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arithmetic
  • Availability
  • Causal Reasoning
  • Classification
  • Cognition
  • Comprehension
  • Computer Programming
  • Educational Psychology
  • Executives
  • Information Processing
  • Language
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Security
  • Students
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.