Low working memory capacity is only spuriously related to poor reading comprehension

Cognition

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 373-403

  Van Dyke, Julie A ^a   Johns, Clinton L ^a   Kukona, Anuenue ^b  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Corsi blocks; Individual differences; Interference; Vocabulary; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; NON VERBAL MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPELLING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896270243     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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