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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a reading span" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to cognitive psychology, education, or reading comprehension, often referring to the amount of text a person can effectively read and understand at one time.
Example: "The study measured the reading span of participants to assess their reading comprehension abilities."
Alternatives: "a reading range" or "a reading capacity".
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Their working memory capacity was assessed via a reading span test to ensure that the subjects were able to process and retain information at about the same level.
Attention capacity was measured using a reading span test, a dual processing task known to tap the central executive function of attention.
In their correlational studies, Daneman and Carpenter (1980 19833) measured working memory by a reading span test.
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A read spanning multiple regions, e.g. multiple exons, is denoted by multiple alignment blocks that are separated by a comma.
If a read spans two or more heterozygous sites, the haplotype can be determined from the co-occurrence of alleles in the read.
In the graph, each column is a node and an edge between two nodes is created if there is a read spanning the corresponding two columns.
Split-read methods detect breakpoints based on a read spanning a breakpoint and, as a result, length of the sequence read as well as the sequence complexity of the breakpoint determine sensitivity (Karakoc et al., 2011).
Anchor length is an important metric for quality evaluation of a read spanning across a fusion junction, and it is defined as the number of nucleotides overlapping each side of the break point.
In sum, we report on the development of a modified reading span task incorporating affectively-laden material and demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, a relative deficit in emotional working memory capacity in trauma survivors with a history of PTSD, compared with trauma-exposed controls who have never suffered from the disorder.
To measure eWMC we devised a novel valenced reading span task, adapted from the standard computer-administered neutral reading span paradigm (Engle, Cantor, & Carullo, 1992).
It is a variant of the reading span test originally designed by Daneman and Carpenter in 1980.
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