Working Memory Influences on Long-Term Memory and Comprehension
Abstract
This project was conducted with the aim of understanding the role of working memory in the comprehension and long-term retention of event-specific information. This study looked at how comprehension and memory processing at the mental model level is related to traditional measures of working memory capacity, including the word span, reading span, operation span, and spatial span tests. Issues of particular interest were the ability to remember event descriptions, the detection and memory of functional relations, the detection of inconsistencies, sensitivity to causal connectivity, and memory for surface form, textbase and situation specific content. Although traditional working memory span measures were related to a few of our tests, the relation was primarily confined to the textbase level of processing. There was little evidence that traditional measures of working memory span were directly related to processing at the mental model level.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA419467
Entities
People
- Gabriel A. Radvansky
Organizations
- University of Notre Dame