Sentence Comprehension and General Working Memory

Autor/inn/en	Moser, Dana C.; Fridriksson, Julius; Healy, Eric W.
Titel	Sentence Comprehension and General Working Memory
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21 (2007) 2, S.147-156 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
Schlagwörter	Memory; Young Adults; Sentences; Correlation; Language Processing; Reading Comprehension; Cognitive Processes; Neurological Impairments; Reaction Time; Timed Tests; Data Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Korrelation; Sprachverarbeitung; Leseverstehen; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Reaktionsvermögen; Auswertung
Abstract	Although the role of working memory in sentence comprehension has received substantial attention, the nature of this relationship remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction between general, nonverbal working memory (WM) and sentence parsing (SP) in normal English-speaking adults. Accuracy and reaction times were recorded for thirty-one young adults during three on-line tasks: nonverbal WM, SP plausibility, and lexical decision (LD). A significant positive correlation was observed between reaction times for WM and SP, but not between LD and SP. These results suggest that SP may be supported by a general WM capacity, and therefore, some sentence comprehension difficulties observed in the clinical population may potentially be related to impairment in general WM. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.) (Author).
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