Abstract
A distinction is made between short-term working memory, which is capacity limited, and long-term working memory, which is available to experts in their domain of expertise. Text comprehension is viewed as expert performance. The role of long-term working memory in text comprehension is analyzed, with an emphasis on the activation of relevant knowledge during comprehension. Latent semantic analysis used to model knowledge activation in text comprehension.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 186-198 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Psychologia |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1999 |
Keywords
- Long-term working memory
- Text comprehension
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)