The role of inner speech in task switching: a dual-task investigation

Article Abstract:

The role of inner speech in task switching performance and its effect on switch cost is examined in a dual task study using articulatory suppression and additional manipulation. It was concluded that inner speech serves as a self-cuing device that helps retrieve and activate the phonological representations of the forthcoming task goal and that it can support executive control processes.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics), Context switching

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The reading span test and its predictive power for reading comprehension ability

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The effect of administration method on the criterion validity of the reading span task and the relationship between the processing and storage ability is studied with 168 native-English speaking undergraduates from the University of Colorado. Individual testing has revealed that the differences in the task administration can influence the criterion validity of the reading span test.

Individual differences, Individual differences (Psychology)

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Individual differences in semantic short-term memory capacity and reading comprehension

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The hypothesis that individual differences in the capacity of a semantic short-term memory (STM) component in working memory (WM) predict performance on complex language tasks is explored. The results of a study that used the conceptual span to measure the capacity of STM indicated that the critical process in comprehension is memory maintenance and not semantic clustering.

Reading skills

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