Abstract

ROLDAN, Luis ángel. Inhibition and Updating in Text Comprehension: a Review . Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.2, pp.87-95. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana,upsy15-2.iact.

The present work describes a group of investigations inquiring into the relationships between executive functions and text comprehension. Specifically, it is reviewed the way in which updating and inhibition processes are associated with the construction of global meaning in text by a reader in a certain context. The investigations were selected through Redalyc, Scielo, Pepsic and Dialnet databases, under the descriptors executive functions and reading comprehension. The reviewed investigations does not assert in all cases that inhibition is discriminant for succesful comprehension. Updating, however, seems to be a good predictor for reading comprehension in all of the surveyed works. It is stressed that the diverse instruments with which both executive functions have been analysed limit result comparison. For future studies, evaluations with similar instruments are proposed, so as to allow the obtaining of comparable results, which can in turn serve as a basis for evaluation and intervention in text comprehension.

Keywords : text comprehension; executive functions; working memory.

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