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Ober, Teresa M.; Brooks, Patricia J.; Homer, Bruce D.; Rindskopf, David – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
Previous meta-analyses highlight the role of executive functions (EF), encompassing working memory updating, task-switching, and inhibitory control, in reading comprehension, but have not established their role in decoding. Decoding is defined as the use of orthographic patterns to access oral pronunciations. According to the dual route model,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Decoding (Reading), Children, Adolescents
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Chen, Edward H.; Bailey, Drew H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
We performed a meta-analysis of dual-task experiments to assess the robustness of the effects of conducting working memory secondary tasks on arithmetic performance. Four hundred effect sizes from 21 studies from 1,049 participants were analyzed across a variety of specifications. Results revealed that increases in working memory load resulted in…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Task Analysis