The relationship between working memory updating components and reading comprehension

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The objective of this study was to determine the contribution of retrieval and substitution components of working memory updating to reading comprehension. Difficulties in reading comprehension have been related to the inability to update information in working memory. Updating is a complex process comprising various subprocesses, such as retrieving information into the focus of attention and substituting information that is no longer relevant. Various numerical subtasks requiring or not requiring the substitution and retrieval components of working memory updating, as well as reading comprehension and general cognitive measures, were administered to a sample ( n = 148) of 4th grade children. Less-skilled comprehenders showed lower accuracy when information retrieval was required. In contrast, substitution was not related to reading comprehension. These findings suggest that reading comprehension difficulties are related to the efficacy of information retrieval during updating in working memory.

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Rocío Linares:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9031-2176

rlinares@ujaen.es

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cogn Process

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Cogn Process

Title: Cognitive Processing

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Berlin/Heidelberg )

ISSN (Print): 1612-4782

ISSN (Electronic): 1612-4790

Publication date (Electronic): 11 February 2023

Publication date PMC-release: 11 February 2023

Publication date (Print): 2023

Volume: 24

Issue: 2

Pages: 253-265

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GRID grid.21507.31, ISNI 0000 0001 2096 9837, Department of Psychology, , University of Jaén, ; Paraje Las Lagunillas S/N, 23071 Jaén, Spain

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Rocío Linares http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9031-2176

Santiago Pelegrina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-8965

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Publisher ID: 1127

DOI: 10.1007/s10339-023-01127-3

PMC ID: 10110648

PubMed ID: 36773185

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Date received : 29 June 2022

Date accepted : 31 January 2023

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Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad;

Award ID: PSI2016-80416-P

Award Recipient : Santiago Pelegrina

Funded by: Universidad de Jaén

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Funding for open access publishing: Universidad de Jaén/CBUA

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Keywords: reading comprehension,working memory updating,retrieval,substitution,working memory

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