Working Memory Capacity but Not Prior Knowledge Impact on Readers' Attention and Text Comprehension

Reading digital texts is a common practice in today's education. Prior studies showed that the coherence of a text can influence text comprehensibility with low degrees of coherence causing attention failures (mind wandering) and, consequently, negatively impacts reading comprehension. In addit...

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Main Authors: Teresa Schurer, Bertram Opitz, Torsten Schubert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Education
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00026/full