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Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"WM"”.
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Parietal contributions to visual working memory depend on task difficulty
… of parietal contributions to working memory (WM) remain poorly understood but of considerable interest. We previously reported that posterior parietal damage selectively impaired WM probed by recognition (Berryhill & Olson, 2008a). Recent studies provided support using a neuromodulatory …
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The Impact of Working Memory Training on Third-Grade Students' Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Performance
… the relationship between working memory (WM) and reading performance in 50 typically-developing third-grade students, as well as the effect of WM-training on their WM, reading fluency, and reading comprehension skills. Half of the sample was randomly assigned to the experimental group, …
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Working memory and symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children
… will be possible. Recently, working memory (WM) has gained attention as a potential core deficit of ADHD. Therefore, theories of ADHD and WM may provide guidance for increased understanding of ADHD, and continued research on ADHD, guided by WM theory, will maximize the effectiveness of …
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The Structure of Working Memory: A Review and New View of Psychometric Models
… the structure and function of working memory (WM), defined as the ability to actively maintain and manipulate information in the service of complex cognition (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974). It is well established that WM is a limited capacity system and individual differences in WM capacity are …
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Working memory and social competence in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) traits
… impairments. Specifically, working memory (WM) deficits have been found in studies of both ADHD and ASD and social competence has been identified as an area in which these individuals also struggle. The purpose of this study was (a) to identify which components of working memory (WM; based …
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Prefrontal coding of naturalistic working memory: Mechanisms during normal maintenance and modelled disease
… has been causally linked to working memory (WM) — the brief maintenance and mental manipulation of information. Primates use WM to perform tasks in complex contexts; however, neural mechanisms of WM and the pathophysiology related to WM deficits have traditionally been studied using simple …
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Working memory for spatial relations
… in cognition, the capacity of working memory (WM) is widely agreed to be roughly 3-5 items: 3-5 objects (i.e., bound collections of object features) in the literature on visual WM, or 3-5 role bindings (i.e., objects in specific relational roles) in the literature on memory and reasoning. Three …
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Getting more out of working memory: Stacking verbal relational role-bindings
Working memory (WM) is a finite-capacity cognitive resource that maintains and manipulates the contents of one’s current thoughts. It determines the complexity both of problems one can solve and thoughts one can have. Of central concern is the currency of WM: what kind of information takes up …
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A Processing Approach to the Working Memory/Long-Term Memory Distinction: Evidence from a Levels-of-Processing Span Task
… about the extent to which working memory: WM) is dissociable from secondary or long-term memory: LTM). Although many similarities may exist between immediate retrieval on WM span tasks and delayed retrieval on LTM tests, important differences exist as well. To illustrate this point, Craik …
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Review of waste management in the UK construction industry
… on factors influencing waste management (WM) suggests government legislation is the most critical success factor for ensuring waste is sustainably managed. A review of the literature however indicated that researches holistically investigating the practices of construction firms and the …
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Examining the Incremental Validity of Working Memory for Predicting Learning and Task Performance: A Partial Mediation Model
… the processes associated with working memory (WM) are important for these outcomes and are not captured by our traditional tests of “g”. This study tested a partial mediation model in which working memory (WM) incrementally predicts task performance above “g” through task knowledge and through …
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Social Information Processing and Working Memory Following Pediatric Stroke
… Previous studies suggest that working memory (WM) and social information processing (SIP), two related individual characteristics that are critical for this construct, are compromised following pediatric AIS. However, research is limited and little is known about the effects of age at stroke …
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Development and evaluation of an adaptive working memory training intervention
Deficits in working memory (WM) functions represent one of the main causes of limited participation in daily life and impaired recovery after brain injury. Based on promising research in clinically healthy individuals, which suggest that repetitive training may improve WM performance and other …
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From working memory to maths: A multi-measure physiological investigation of the impact of anxiety
… tionship between anxiety and working memory (WM). The importance of WM for maths processing and the sensitivity of physiological measures to both anxious responses and executive processes make these measures appealing for advancing our understanding of maths anxiety (MA). The overarching …
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Preparation and structure of Octenyl succinic anhydride modified waxy maize starch, microporous starch and maltodextrin
… the reaction of OSA with granular waxy maize (WM) starch, microporous WM starch and soluble maltodextrin. OS starches were prepared in an aqueous slurry system, and the degree of substitution (DS) of OS starches was determined by titration and [superscript]1H-NMR spectroscopy. For both 3% and …
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Using Working Memory to Address the Validity-Diversity Dilemma: Incremental Validity and Subgroup Differences Compared to GMA
… cognitive ability is examined – working memory (WM). Two-hundred participants (50% Black, 50% White) were given measures of GMA and WM before being presented with learning opportunities meant to teach them novel information. The participants were then instructed to complete tasks which apply this …
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Testing inattention as a predictor of graphomotor and cognitive processing speed in unmedicated, young adults, when depression and working memory are controlled
… 2010). PS is correlated with Working Memory (WM), as established in the cognitive literature (Fry & Hale, 2000), and ADHD is significantly correlated with depression as evidenced in the clinical literature (Biederman et al., 2008). However, the current body of literature does not look into the …
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Modelling white matter pathology and establishing a novel ex-vivo platform for drug identification in neuroinflammation
White matter (WM) makes up a critical component of the CNS, composed primarily of myelinated axons. Herein, axons and the myelin sheath form a dynamic and communicative axo-glial unit which acts to regulate and support axonal function. The myelin sheath not only electrically insulates axons …
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The progression of white matter abnormalities in individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria (PKU)
… which is abnormalities of cortical white matter (WM). Past studies suggest that posterior WM is generally more compromised than anterior WM, but little is known regarding how this pattern of findings translates to potential impact along the spatial extent of individual WM tracts. The present study …
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