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ERIC Number: EJ737812
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-May
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0749-596X
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The Nature of Working Memory Capacity in Sentence Comprehension: Evidence against Domain-Specific Working Memory Resources
Fedorenko, Evelina; Gibson, Edward; Rohde, Douglas
Journal of Memory and Language, v54 n4 p541-553 May 2006
This paper reports the results of a dual-task experiment which investigates the nature of working memory resources used in sentence comprehension. Participants read sentences of varying syntactic complexity (containing subject-and object-extracted relative clauses) while remembering one or three nouns (similar to or dissimilar from the sentence-nouns). 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. These results extend Gordon, Hendrick, and Levine's (2002) report of a trend of such an interaction. The results argue against the domain-specific view of working memory resources in sentence comprehension (Caplan & Waters, 1999).
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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