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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Reading Span"”.
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Predictors of Second Language Reading Span
… the resources available during L2 processing. L1 reading span as measured by the reading span task (Daneman and Carpenter, 1980) has been shown to be a good indicator of biological WM capacity (Conway et al., 2005). However, studies have shown that L2 reading span is generally lower than L1 …
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Eye movements under the control of working memory : the challenge of a reading-span task
During reading oculomotor processes guide the eyes over the text. The visual information recorded is accessed, evaluated and processed. Only by retrieving the meaning of a word from the long-term memory, as well as through the connection and storage of the information about each individual word, is …
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Predicting independent functioning in an elderly population: the evaluation of working memory capacity as a biomarker of ageing.
… whether a task of working memory capacity (Reading Span), could predict a range of independent functioning outcome measures. Employing a longitudinal study design (three measurement occasions over approximately 18 months), 150 community-dwelling participants, 70 years of age and over (99 …
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The Longitudinal Role of Working Memory on Adult Acquisition of L2 Grammar
… among subjects with low, medium and high WM span, and can be explained along several lines: methodological limitations of the tests (grammar tests and the reading span test); the domain specificity hypothesis; the processing efficiency hypothesis; and the less is more hypothesis.
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Pruning the right branch : working memory and understanding sentences
… function. Scores on the different tests (N-back, reading span, backward digit span) did not correlate highly, and were predicted by measures of different hypothesized components of working memory. These results indicate that working memory is best conceived of as a system of multiple, interacting …
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Memory for actions that are done, imagined, or promised in text
… locks?” Participants then completed an Operation Span and a Reading Span task to measure working memory. The results showed a strong main effect of verb type (Do, Promise, Think) in both accuracy and reading times, with the mean accuracy for the Do condition at 76% correct vs Promise at 40%, and …
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The association of working memory and anxiety with skill acquisition and transfer in young and older adults
… memory functioning was measured using the Digit Span task (Wechsler, 1997) und the Reading Span tusk (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980), while anxiety levels were measured using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983). Participants were required to perform …
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Accent Marks in L2 French: Keyboarding, Presentation Format, Working Memory, and Pronunciation Ability
… keys, or ALT+codes). Participants' memory span was measured, using a variation of the Daneman and Carpenter (1980) reading span task and a Stroop color-interference task, and their ability to pronounce target items was recorded and rated by native speakers of French. Results showed that …
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Age-Related Changes in Listening Effort for Various Types of Masker Noises
… cognitive tests which measured working memory (Reading Span test), processing speed (DSST) and selective attention (Stroop test) ability.</p> <p>Results revealed that participants' working memory and processing speed ability were significantly related to their speech recognition performance in …
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Aspekte der Schriftsprachverarbeitung und der Einfluss von Strategien : eine empirische Untersuchung zum Deutschen und Japanischen
… werden konnten. <br>Als Testverfahren kamen der reading span test (RST) nach Daneman & Carpenter (1980), eine Aufgabe zur Wortdefinition aus dem Zusammenhang einer kleinen Geschichte (nach Daneman & Green 1986), die standardisierten Wechsler-Tests zum Wortschatz und zum Nacherzählen sowie eine …
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Factors Related to Self-Identification of Candidacy, Device Selection, and Self-Fitting of Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
… and administered three cognitive measures: the Reading-SPAN, Digit Symbol Substitution Task, and the Simon task. During the second test session participants were asked to browse three different OTC hearing aids online and select the device they preferred. They were asked to complete a …
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Use of plausibility information and structural preference in resolving sentence ambiguity in Korean
… and semantic plausibility, were employed in reading comprehension by three groups of Korean speakers with different L1 backgrounds: native speakers of Korean (NSs), heritage speakers of Korean (HSs), and adult second-language (L2) learners of Korean (K2s). HSs in the current study were …
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Test Anxiety, Working Memory and Verbal SAT Performance
… However, no difference in working memory span was observed between participants with high and low test trait anxiety. The null results between experimental and control groups were attributed to ineffective stress manipulation. That is, the participants in the experimental group did not …
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Sois belle et tais-toi: la bienveillance sexiste comme outil de discrimination
… les performances cognitives des femmes grâce au Reading Span Test (Daneman et Carpenter, 1980). Dans les Chapitres 5-6, nous utiliserons des mesures plus implicites pour évaluer les conséquences engendrées par l’exposition au sexisme bienveillant en milieu professionnel. Dans le Chapitre 5, nous …