processing capacity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprocessingandcapacity
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processing
noun[U]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses.ɪŋ/us/ˈprɑː.ses.ɪŋ/
the act of dealing with documents or people in an ...
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capacity
noun
uk/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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(Definition ofprocessingandcapacityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Rather, mastery may also be determined by other basic cognitive factors such as memory orprocessingcapacity.
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According to this model of craving, these automatic drug use schemata consume cognitiveprocessingcapacity and, therefore, will adversely affect cognitive function.
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Another potential contributing factor is diminished generalprocessingcapacity.
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However, in contrast to other accounts assumingprocessingcapacitylimitations, the processing limitation assumed in this account is confined to movement and checking operations.
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The results are discussed in the context of theories of limitedprocessingcapacityduring text production.
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If this analysis is correct, then the problem is not intrinsic deficits in syntax, but theprocessingcapacityto handle complexity.
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It is probably a good thing that pianos do not allow these types of control due to limitations of informationprocessingcapacity.
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The effects ofprocessingcapacityand sustained selective attention on the temporal processing performance of children with specific language impairment.
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But to effectively utilize this information, theprocessingcapacityof the frontal and cingulate regions is necessary.
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This comparison is seen as exceeding the child'sprocessingcapacity, ultimately leading to guessing.
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It is constrained in its choice by its available freeprocessingcapacityresources.
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Limitations inprocessingcapacityhave been conceptualized in different ways by different investigators.
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It has been argued that learning inflectional morphology taxes theprocessingcapacityof children because morphemes are perceptually low in salience.
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Thus, if poor comprehenders have generalprocessingcapacitydeficits, their poor word order correction performance should not be surprising.
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Narrow syntax becomes fully operational only when it becomes fully efficient, which is related, among other things, to the maturation of the child'sprocessingcapacity.
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As a result of the limitedprocessingcapacityof the visual system, they cannot all be processed fully.
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Thus, they have acquired declarative and procedural domain specific knowledge that permits them to circumvent the limits on theirprocessingcapacity.
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The nonmodular accounts considered two factors that might affect children's comprehension of grammar: auditory perception andprocessingcapacity.
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