%0 Journal Article %1 DanemanCarpenter1980 %A Daneman, Meredyth %A Carpenter, Patricia A. %D 1980 %J Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior. Vol %K psychometry workingmemory %N 4 %P 450--466 %T Individual differences in working memory and reading. %U http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?q=info:sQWeu4YW6eUJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&hl=en&ct=citation&cd=0 %V 19 %X Individual differences in reading comprehension may reflect differences in working memory capacity, specifically in the trade-off between its processing and storage functions. A poor reader's processes may be inefficient, so that they lessen the amount of additional information that can be maintained in working memory. A test with heavy processing and storage demands was devised to measure this trade-off in 2 experiments with 41 undergraduates. Ss read aloud a series of sentences and then recalled the final word of each sentence. The reading span, the number of final words recalled, varied from 2 to 5. This span correlated with 3 reading comprehension measures, including verbal SAT and tests involving fact retrieval and pronominal reference. Similar correlations were obtained with a listening span task, showing that the correlation is not specific to reading. Results are contrasted with traditional digit span and word span measures that do not correlate with comprehension.

@article{DanemanCarpenter1980, abstract = {Individual differences in reading comprehension may reflect differences in working memory capacity, specifically in the trade-off between its processing and storage functions. A poor reader's processes may be inefficient, so that they lessen the amount of additional information that can be maintained in working memory. A test with heavy processing and storage demands was devised to measure this trade-off in 2 experiments with 41 undergraduates. Ss read aloud a series of sentences and then recalled the final word of each sentence. The reading span, the number of final words recalled, varied from 2 to 5. This span correlated with 3 reading comprehension measures, including verbal SAT and tests involving fact retrieval and pronominal reference. Similar correlations were obtained with a listening span task, showing that the correlation is not specific to reading. Results are contrasted with traditional digit span and word span measures that do not correlate with comprehension.}, added-at = {2009-10-18T15:20:47.000+0200}, author = {Daneman, Meredyth and Carpenter, Patricia A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/247aa5cf6799a94185783374f496df9dc/tmalsburg}, interhash = {0f3d7b14a675525af5819460ac26bc05}, intrahash = {47aa5cf6799a94185783374f496df9dc}, journal = {Journal of Verbal Learning \& Verbal Behavior. Vol}, keywords = {psychometry workingmemory}, number = 4, pages = {450--466}, timestamp = {2009-10-18T15:20:48.000+0200}, title = {{Individual differences in working memory and reading.}}, url = {http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?q=info:sQWeu4YW6eUJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&hl=en&ct=citation&cd=0}, volume = 19, year = 1980 }