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Daneman, Meredyth; Carpenter, Patricia A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Discusses the nature of individual differences in working memory and presents the span test that was used to assess working memory capability. Next it discusses how working memory capacity might influence two specific components of reading comprehension, retrieving facts and computing pronominal references. (NCR)
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Learning Processes, Memory, Reading Comprehension
