The role of long-term working memory in text comprehension.
Walter Kintsch, Vimla Lodhia Patel, K. Anders Ericsson · Psychologica · 1999
A distinction is made between short-term working memory, which is capacity limited, and long-term working memory , which is available to experts in their domain of expertise . Text comprehension is viewed as expert performance. The role of long-term working memory in text comprehension is analyzed, with an emphasis on the activation of relevant knowledge during comprehension . Latent semantic analysis used to model knowledge activation in text comprehension.