The nature of working memory capacity in sentence comprehension: Evidence against domain-specific working memory resources

Article Abstract:

A dual-task experiment is carried out to investigate the nature of working memory resources used in sentence comprehension. A significant on-line interaction was found between syntactic complexity and similarity between the memory-nouns and the sentence-nouns in the three memory-nouns conditions, such that the similarity between the memory nouns and the sentence nouns affected the more complex object-extracted relative clauses to a greater extent than the less complex subject-extracted relative clauses.

Science & research, Research, Grammar, Comparative and general, Short-term memory, Nouns

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The interaction of top-down and bottom-up statistics in the resolution of syntactic category ambiguity

Article Abstract:

An investigation as to people resolving syntactic category ambiguities when comprehending sentences is conducted. It is proposed that people combine context-dependent syntactic expectations and context-independent lexical-category frequencies of words in order to resolve ambiguities in the lexical categories of words.

United States, Context effects (Psychology), Ambiguity

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