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Direct linkMcVay, Jennifer C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The primary goal of this study was to investigate the mediating role of mind wandering in the relationship between working memory capacity (WMC) and reading comprehension as predicted by the executive-attention theory of WMC (e.g., Kane & Engle, 2003). I used a latent-variable, structural-equation-model approach with three WMC span tasks, seven…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Attention Control, Short Term Memory, Investigations
