TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1992//
TI  - Individual differences in working memory and comprehension: a test of four hypotheses
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition
A1  - Engle, R. W.
A1  - Cantor, Joanne
A1  - Carullo, J. J.
SP  - 972
EP  - 992
VL  - 18
IS  - 5
N2  - A relationship has consistently been found between measures of working memory and reading comprehension. Four hypotheses for this relationship were tested in 3 experiments. In the first 2 experiments, a moving window procedure was used to present the operation-word and reading span tasks. High- and low-span subjects did not differentially trade off time on the elements of the tasks and the to-be-remembered word. Furthermore, the correlation between span and comprehension was undiminished when the viewing times were partialed out. Experiment 3 compared a traditional experimenter-paced simple word-span and a subject-paced span in their relationship with comprehension. The experimenter-paced word-span correlated with comprehension but the subject-paced span did not. The results of all 3 experiments support a general capacity explanation for the relationship between working memory and comprehension.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0278-7393
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -