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Working Memory Limitations

Working Memory Limitations is a cognitive construct denoting the constrained capacity of the human mind to simultaneously hold and process linguistic and textual information during reading, which impedes comprehension when the demands of a text exceed available mental resources.

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2017–2026

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Working Memory Capacity as Executive Attention

Randall W Engle · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2002 · 2.5K citations

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Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later

John Sweller, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer, Fred Paas · Educational Psychology Review · 2019 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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The Expertise Reversal Effect

Slava Kalyuga, Paul Ayres, Paul Chandler et al. · Educational Psychologist · 2003 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Working memory and language comprehension: A meta-analysis

Meredyth Daneman, Philip M. Merikle · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 1996 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.

Nash Unsworth, Randall W Engle · Psychological Review · 2007 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. SE
    Susan E. Gathercole

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    27 publications · 6.8K citations

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  2. RW
    Randall W Engle

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    24 publications · 7.6K citations

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  3. NU
    Nash Unsworth

    University of Oregon, United States

    23 publications · 4.3K citations

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  4. NC
    Nelson Cowan

    University of Missouri, United States

    18 publications · 5.1K citations

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  5. HL
    H. Lee Swanson

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    21 publications · 2.3K citations

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Institutions

854

  1. Georgia Institute of Technology

    Atlanta, United States

    25 h-index

    48 publications

    12.7K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    45 publications

    4.2K citations

  3. University of Missouri

    Columbia, United States

    19 h-index

    37 publications

    6.5K citations

  4. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    18 h-index

    49 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. University of Oregon

    Eugene, United States

    17 h-index

    34 publications

    6.2K citations

  6. University of California, Riverside

    Riverside, United States

    16 h-index

    27 publications

    3.2K citations

  7. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    16 h-index

    47 publications

    9.3K citations

  8. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    14 h-index

    43 publications

    5.2K citations

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Venues

  1. Memory & Cognition

    42 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. Intelligence

    31 publications · 4.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Memory and Language

    29 publications · 3.7K citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

    JECP · 29 publications · 4.8K citations

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  5. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

    26 publications · 5.4K citations

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