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Glanzer, Murray; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Five studies were carried out to analyze role of short-term storage in reading of organized text. By interrupting the subject's reading with a distractor task, information that was being carried in short-term storage was removed. It was found that this interruption effect could be countered by giving the subject the last one or two sentences that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Memory, Reading Comprehension
