The Competing Role of Knowledge and Working Memory in Reading Comprehension

EasyChair Preprint 3512

Abstract

Though the roles of working memory (WM) and prior knowledge (PK) in reading comprehension have been studied extensively, their effects are rarely studied concurrently. Much of this work has struggled to adequately assess WM or has used insufficient measures of comprehension. The present study simultaneously tested the impact of WM, vocabulary, and domain-specific PK on reading comprehension. Only domain-specific PK predicted unique variance in reading comprehension, emphasizing the importance of PK for building understanding.

Keyphrases: prior knowledge, reading comprehension, working memory

@booklet{EasyChair:3512,
  author    = {Sarah K. C. Dygert and Sarah D. Creer and Andrew F. Jarosz and Laura K. Allen},
  title     = {The Competing Role of Knowledge and Working Memory in Reading Comprehension},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3512},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}