Influential factors in individual differences in reading comprehension: cognitive inhibition and working memory

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Published: Mar 31, 2017
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Reading, Reading comprehension, Cognitive inhibition, working memory.

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Carlos Wilfrido Guevara Toledo
Universidad del Azuay

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To read involves understanding of what it is read; automation of the processes involved in reading, lead us to believe that it is a simple process. Thepeople, to read uses encoding and decoding processes: recognizing and decoding words graphemes allowing lexical access; and comprehension processes: syntactic and semantic analysis, to give meaning to the text they read. Any disturbance in these processes compromise text comprehension and learning, including expert readers. Reading is the gateway to knowledge, science and good living.The analysis of reading comprehension should be analyzed from neuroscience. A review of the neurophysiological factors: cognitive inhibition and working memory, that influenced individual differences in reading comprehension in expert readers, was performed. Starting from a bibliographical review, the theoretical proposals of Megan Boudewyn and Debra Long, researchers from the Universities of California – Davis and Wisconsin – Madison, were considered. It was concluded that cognitive inhibition and working memory are influential factors for individual differences in reading comprehension in expert readers. The PROLEC - SE (reader process evaluation), the reading amplitude (PAL) test, the Stroop effect and experimental tests of sentences with prime words, associated and non - associated can help to investigate these factors.

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Guevara Toledo, C. W. (2017). Influential factors in individual differences in reading comprehension: cognitive inhibition and working memory. Mendive. Journal on Education, 15(1), 110–118. Retrieved from https://mendive.upr.edu.cu/index.php/MendiveUPR/article/view/930
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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2017): January-march
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REVIEW ARTICLES
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Carlos Wilfrido Guevara Toledo, Universidad del Azuay

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