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Mano, Quintino R. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
Accumulating evidence suggests that literacy acquisition involves developing sensitivity to the statistical regularities of the textual environment. To organize accumulating evidence and help guide future inquiry, this article integrates data from disparate fields of study and formalizes a new two-process framework for developing sensitivity to…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Incidental Learning, Attention Control, Children
McVay, 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