Capacity of Working Memory
Locating Working Memory in Word Free Recall and Estimating its Capacity at Less Than 3.1 +/- 0.2 Words
... the capacity of working memory (the statistical error is less than 7% estimating it as sqrt(1/total recall+1/initial recall) even though the two measures are not independent and the errors would tend ...
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The relationship between working memory capacity and temporal and dichotic auditory processing in teachers
... environment. Working memory tests, dichotic digit test (DDT) and gap-detection test (GDT) were performed for both ...and working memory capacity test showed that the scores of the case ...
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Working memory capacity as a determinant of proactive interference and auditory distraction
... in working memory capacity are related to performance on a range of elemental and higher order cognitive ...to working memory capacity: working memory as executive ...
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The effect of spatial working memory capacity on ball flight perception
... in working memory related to physical performance may help elucidate the fundamental structure of expertise (Furley and Wood, ...to working memory capacity reductions or reduction of ...
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Heritability of Preferred Thinking Styles and a Genetic Link to Working Memory Capacity
... Individuals differ with respect to how they prefer to think. Some like to methodically work through all the costs and benefits prior to making a decision, whereas others prefer to rely primarily on intuition. Some will ...
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Why does higher working memory capacity help you learn?
... ual’s working memory capacity (WMC) may be usefully mod- elled in terms of the number of samples, or ‘particles’, that are available for ...filter; working mem- ory; category learning; ...
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A randomised controlled trial investigating the benefits of adaptive working memory training for working memory capacity and attentional control in high worriers
... in working memory capacity and availability of resources necessary for efficient attentional ...into working memory training have shown improvements in attentional control and cognitive ...
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The Effect of Bilingualism/ Monolinguals on L2 Working Memory Capacity and Verbal Intelligence
... as working memory verbal intelligence and that there is a significant positive correlation between working memory (WM) capacity and the majority of the higher-order executive functions ...
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Working Memory Capacity and Reading Skills: A Study Comparing Dutch-English
... and working memory have been shown to develop earlier in bilingual children than in comparable monolinguals (Adi-Japha, Berberich-Artzi & Libnawi, 2010; Bialystok, 2010; Carlson and Meltzoff, 2008; ...
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A Precise Measure of Working Memory Reveals Subjects Difficulties Managing Limited Capacity
... 193 Russian college students were tested via the internet version of the TUT. The average number of items remembered in the 3 item test was 2.54 items. In the 4 item test, the average number of items decreased to 2.38. ...
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Working memory capacity limits motor learning when implementing multiple instructions
... WM capacity was due to previous findings that implicate the verbal system in working memory as the prominent construct influencing the ability to follow instructions (Jaroslawska et ...WM ...
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Foraging in a complex naturalistic environment: capacity of spatial working memory in flower bats
... spatial memory to relocate such food targets (Thiele and Winter, ...the capacity of spatial working memory for this mammalian spatial memory ...
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Experimental Approach to Reference in Discourse: Working Memory Capacity and Language Comprehension in Russian
... of Working Memory (WM) developed by ...auditory memory traces decay in about two seconds, and an articulatory rehearsal component, that serves for subvocal ...long-term memory. The central ...
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Individual differences in explicit and implicit visuomotor learning and working memory capacity
... The theoretical basis for the association between high working memory capacity (WMC) and enhanced visuomotor adaptation is unknown. V isuomotor adaptation involves interplay between explicit and ...
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The effects of active worrying on working memory capacity
... According to the Attentional Control Theory of Anxiety (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos & Calvo, 2007), worry, a crucial component of anxiety, impairs task performance outcome(s) through its direct effect on ...
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Working memory capacity, content familiarity, and university EFL students’ reading comprehension
... from working memory to improve inferential comprehension in the higher level operation of comprehension, yet content familiarity does not affect lower level operation in the literal ...
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Inattentional blindness, absorption, working memory capacity, and paranormal belief
... These comparisons suggest that performance on the AOSPAN for the IB group was significantly lower than average and is indicative of a cognitive deficit explana[r] ...
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Individual differences in explicit and implicit visuomotor learning and working memory capacity
... tation, we observed, for the irst time, a positive association between WMC and explicit adaptation, but a negative association between WMC and implicit adaptation, supporting the third account. We were also able to ...
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Are word association responses really the first words that come to mind?
... term memory stores. It is a limited capacity system, and the amount of working memory resources that an individual has available to them has been linked to performance in a number of language ...
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Poetic parallelism and working memory
... less capacity in the episodic buffer in comparison with the new words of the first line, and so the sequence may not be overall as large as at first ...from working memory once their match has been ...
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