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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"memory span"”.
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A study of the relationship between auditory memory span and sentence repetition.
… purpose of this study is to investigate auditory memory as it relates to sentence repetition. Three questions were investigated: Is the ability to repeat a grammatically complex sentence the result of mastery of the rules of the grammatical relations for that particular sentence form? Is the …
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Effects of programming in relation to working memory span on cognitive ability
… and whether the effects varied with working memory span (high vs. low). Sixty-seven children in 5th grade in one elementary school in Iceland were randomly assigned to two groups, involving seven weeks of interventions; programming lessons and innovation lessons. Three cognitive ability …
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The Effect of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Memory Scan and Memory Span in Working Memory
<p>The efficiency of working memory processes has been studied by many researchers. Verbal ability and intoxication with ethanol are two hypothesized influences on the efficiency of working memory processes. This study looked at these factors across two measures, memory span tasks and memory scan …
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The Influence of Linguistic Structure on Memory Span: Repetition Tasks as a Measure of Language Ability
… thesis evaluated the extent to which long-term memory linguistic representations (syntactic, semantic, prosodic and lexical) affect immediate verbal repetition performance. The effects of these linguistic factors on short-term memory span were explored through an experiment with 140 English- and …
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The Effects of Caffeine and Expectancy on Short Term Memory
… mental performance tasks (especially short term memory tasks) is inconclusive. One possible explanation for this limited understanding is the lack of studies accounting for participant expectancy surrounding caffeine. This study examined the effects of caffeine dosage (0mg, 200mg, and 400mg) and …
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Relation of visuospatial and analytical skills and span of short-term memory to academic achievement in high school geometry
… visuospatial and logical reasoning skills, and span of short-term memory to achievement in geometry. In addition, major subfactors of visuospatial ability (visualization, speeded rotations, spatial orientation, and disembedding) were assessed to determine which were significant predictors of …
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Time of Day and Age Differences in the Components of Working Memory
… the effects of time of day on short-term memory efficiency in older and younger adults. Forty-five young (18-35 years of age) and thirty-six older (over 60 years of age) adults were selected for participation. Subjects were tested individually at 0900 hrs, 1400 hrs or 2000 hrs. Two …
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The association of working memory and anxiety with skill acquisition and transfer in young and older adults
… could be related to age differences in working memory functioning and anxiety. In both experiments, working 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 …
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Numeric Memory: Developing Representations
Whether for letters or numbers, memory span increases dramatically from age 2 to young adulthood. The cognitive mechanisms underlying this age-related change are still somewhat uncertain. With emphasis on the Fuzzy Trace Theory (FTT) and the representational change account of numerical cognition, …
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Investigating the relationship of verbal span and spatial span in a combination task
Measurement of working memory span typically involves tasks designed to introduce stimuli to the unique slave systems. It is widely accepted that these isolated measurements indicate, at a relatively simple level, the span of the given working memory system. This study hypothesizes that separate …
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The Effects of Mental Models and Expertise on Running Memory and Clinical Handoff Effectiveness
… Participants performed an abstract running memory span task and two tasks resembling real world activities, an air traffic control (ATC) handoff task, and a clinical handoff task. For all tasks list length and the amount of information to be recalled was manipulated. Further, in the ATC and …
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Working memory and human reasoning : an individual differences approach
… investigated the relationship between working memory and syllogistic and five-ten-n series spatial inference. A secondary aim was to replicate the findings of Shah and Miyake (1996) who suggested the use of separate central resources of working memory for spatial and verbal ability. The …
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Warning Compliance: Effects Of Stress And Working Memory
… was also intended to determine what role working memory played in the mode of warning presentation that resulted in the highest retention and subsequent compliance. An all within participant design was created in order to determine if scores on working memory span tasks predicted performance …
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Examining Validity of Aha! Ratings as a Construct of Insight
… and examining their correlation with working memory span. Ninety-eight undergraduate students from a Southeastern university completed reading and operational span tasks, as well as the compound remote associates task. Self-reported ratings of Effort, Confidence, and Suddenness were collected …
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Test Anxiety, Working Memory and Verbal SAT Performance
… the relationship between test anxiety, working memory, and verbal SAT performance. Test anxiety negatively affects performance because it decreases working memory space available for processing test information. However, the present study wanted to asses this theory with an experimental design …
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Influence of Reading Proficiency on Text Representation in L1 and L2
… model than younger students; (2) Working memory span and speeded naming were good predictors of textbase level and situation model representation, respectively. Study 2 addressed the impact of Chinese children's English reading proficiency on English reading comprehension. The participants …
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Gender Differences in Prose Memory After Acute Intoxication with Ethanol
… to differences among groups in short-term memory span. The results indicated that acute intoxication with ethanol impairs the efficiency of prose processing even when subjects were permitted to encode the material at their own rate.</p> <p>Furthermore, male subjects generally spent more …
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Elementary Cognitive Tasks as Measures of Intelligence
… the following: simple and choice reaction, memory span, simple reasoning, Sternberg memory, sentence-picture comparison, semantic memory, iconic memory and many others. Many reasons for the interest in these tasks as measures of individual differences in ability are available but one of the …
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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
… experience, phonological ability, working memory, inhibitory control, and perceptual speed. Three syntactic phenomena were chosen for the current investigation: the relative processing difficulty for object- versus subject-extracted relative clauses; the effect of verb biases in reading a …
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