At present we observe a vigorous developmental of the cognitive science like a multidisciplinary field that involve several disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive anthropology, in order to study the cognition. The study of cognition and mind has been made from a point of view of the speculative philosophy, or from perspective of the philosophy of mind, or from a point of view scientific. The hypothetical and/or theoretical proposals offered from those studies, are discussed and are submitted to experimental analysis, for the purpose to test their scientific validity. Thus, the cognitive science set the essential properties of mind and cognition, such as the representational nature of mind, the causal relation between the cognitive representation and the behavior, the symbolic nature of information mentally ...

The purpose of this work was to analyze the working memory like a cognitive model envolved in lexical tasks and individual differentiation on capacity of Reading. The subjects were 163 students of public and particular schools. In this study we elaborated a new “reading span test” agreement with suggestions from Daneman and Carpenter (1980), adapted to children students. That instrument was correlated with the subtest of Number from WISC, inverted form. The validity assessment between both tests was made with Spearman’s coefficient of correlation. The consequence of that assessment showed rRHO = 0,47; it should prove both tests contain the function of processing (or computation) proper of the working memorysystem. Then, that “reading span test” is an adequate instrument to measure individual differences about capacity of reading only in similar subjects like those we studied.

The purpose of this work was to analyze the working memory like a cognitive model envolved in lexical tasks and individual differentiation on capacity of Reading. The subjects were 163 students of public and particular schools. In this study we elaborated a new “reading span test” agreement with suggestions from Daneman and Carpenter (1980), adapted to children students. That instrument was correlated with the subtest of Number from WISC, inverted form. The validity assessment between both tests was made with Spearman’s coefficient of correlation. The consequence of that assessment showed rRHO = 0,47; it should prove both tests contain the function of processing (or computation) proper of the working memorysystem. Then, that “reading span test” is an adequate instrument to measure individual differences about capacity of reading only in similar subjects like those we studied.

At present we observe a vigorous developmental of the cognitive science like a multidisciplinary field that involve several disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive anthropology, in order to study the cognition. The study of cognition and mind has been made from a point of view of the speculative philosophy, or from perspective of the philosophy of mind, or from a point of view scientific. The hypothetical and/or theoretical proposals offered from those studies, are discussed and are submitted to experimental analysis, for the purpose to test their scientific validity. Thus, the cognitive science set the essential properties of mind and cognition, such as the representational nature of mind, the causal relation between the cognitive representation and the behavior, the symbolic nature of information mentally ...