Working memory, automaticity, and problem difficulty

MH Ashcraft, RD Donley, MA Halas, M Vakali - Advances in psychology, 1992 - Elsevier
… of working memory … on working memory, whereas a low difficulty problem lie 2 t 3 should
be retrieved rather than reconstructed, with accordingly low demands on working memory. …

Working memory and reading difficulties: What we know and what we don't know about the relationship

R Savage, N Lavers, V Pillay - Educational psychology review, 2007 - Springer
… have investigated the role of working memory (WM), a memory system assumed to be …
term and working memory, and specifically, verbal working memory processing systems are …

Word problem solving, working memory and serious math difficulties: Do cognitive strategies really make a difference?

HL Swanson - Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
… the role of strategy instruction on problem-solving solution accuracy in elementary school
children with math difficulties MD (N = 162) who varied in working memory capacity (WMC). …

Short-term memory, working memory, and inhibitory control in children with difficulties in arithmetic problem solving

MC Passolunghi, LS Siegel - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2001 - Elsevier
… Based on these findings, we hypothesized that the working memory deficit of the poor
problem solvers may be related to an inability to control and to ignore irrelevant or no longer …

Working memory

A Baddeley - Science, 1992 - science.org
… Pursuing this issue was difficult because patients with a pure short-term memory deficit are
rare. We therefore attempted to simulate this condition in unimpaired subjects by using a dual-…

Improving working memory efficiency by reframing metacognitive interpretation of task difficulty.

F Autin, JC Croizet - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
difficulty spontaneously generates interfering thoughts about incompetence that … tax
working memory. We predict that an immediate way to elicit higher working memory is to …

Spatial and visual working memory ability in children with difficulties in arithmetic word problem solving

MC Passolunghi, IC Mammarella - European Journal of Cognitive …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… nature of visuospatial working memory, to date there is no … and spatial components of
working memory, but the individual … of visual and spatial working memory in poor problem-solvers …

Relations between life difficulties, measures of working memory operation, and examination performance in a student sample

J Wilding, B Andrews, J Hejdenberg - Memory, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… in student life is to reduce working memory capacity and hence examination … difficulties at
the time of the working memory span test, rather than the self-rating of the impact of difficulties

Growth in working memory and mathematical problem solving in children at risk and not at risk for serious math difficulties.

HL Swanson, O Jerman, X Zheng - Journal of Educational …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
… The influence of cognitive growth in working memory (WM) on mathematical problem … math
problem solving difficulties. A battery of tests was administered that assessed problem solving…

Working memory failures in children with arithmetical difficulties

MC Passolunghi, C Cornoldi - Child Neuropsychology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… cases arithmetic difficulties are related to working memory deficits, … difficulties and working
memory have many facets that may have different implications. In particular, working memory