Abstract
The present study addressed the relationship between an individual difference in the reading span test (RST) and the performance in text comprehension with respect to storage and retrieval systems. In Experiment 1 a comparison was made of an effect of the serial recall task on performance in text comprehension on high and low RST score groups. Experiment 2 was an investigation of an effect of the word fluency task on performance in text comprehension of two groups. The results of both experiments showed that the performance in text comprehension of the low RST score group was decreased by the serial recall task. In contrast, the performance of the high RST score group was influenced by the word fluency task. The results suggested that the high RST score group comprehended text not only by using a temporary storage system but also by using a retrieval system.
