出版社：Faculdade de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：Working memory and, particularly, the mechanism of inhibition have a crucial
role in text comprehension. The aim of this research was to study the relation
between the ability of reading comprehension and working memory (WM). We test
the hypothesis that difficulty in inhibiting information can influence
comprehension. In the first experiment, 153 children aged 9 and 12 years were
evaluated with a test of reading comprehension and a WM task. In the second
experiment 24 children were evaluated with the Hayling Test that asses the
ability to inhibit verbal responses. The results evidence a correlation between
WM and text comprehension ability. Children with difficulties in text
comprehension obtained a significantly lower performance in memory and
inhibition tests, suggesting that the relation between reading understanding and
WM could depend on the skills to inhibit irrelevant information.
关键词：Comprehension; text; working memory; inhibition verbal.
