Skilled Readers Engage More Proactive Attentional Control During a Working Memory Task

EasyChair Preprint 3849

Abstract

This experiment employed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) working memory task to examine how three sub-component processes: (1) Proactive Control, (2) Filtering, and (3) Disengagement contribute to a mechanistic explanation of the relation between working memory and reading skill. Results suggested that skilled readers deploy more prefrontal resources when cued proactively about task-relevant features than do less-skilled readers. In contrast, reading skill was not related to activation associated with attention-filtering or successful disengagement.

Keyphrases: Proactive Control, individual differences, reading, working memory

@booklet{EasyChair:3849,
  author    = {Malayka Mottarella and Brianna L. Yamasaki and Chantel Prat},
  title     = {Skilled Readers Engage More Proactive Attentional Control During a Working Memory Task},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3849},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}