Titolo Aspetti della memoria di lavoro implicati nel processo di comprensione del testo scritto Periodico Giornale italiano di psicologia Anno: 1998 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 749 - Pagina finale: 778
A series of experimental studies focusing on the relationship between working memory and text comprehension are analysed. Daneman and Carpenter (1980) reported a correlation between a working memory test, the Reading Span Test, and text comprehension tasks; several later studies replicated such a correlation. Theoretical and experimental validity of the four most important hypotheses about the relationship between text comprehension and working memory (RST) - efficiency of general processing, strategic knowledge and control, structural aspects of memory system (capacity or available resources), and efficiency of inibitory mechanisms - is discussed.