When High-Capacity Readers Slow Down and Low-Capacity Readers Speed Up: Working Memory and Locality Effects
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When High-Capacity Readers Slow Down and Low-Capacity Readers Speed Up: Working Memory and Locality Effects
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00280