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

@article{citeulike:1586074, abstract = {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 ).}, author = {Fedorenko, E. and Gibson, E. and Rohde, D.}, citeulike-article-id = {1586074}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.006}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0749596X05001506}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WK4-4J8KW0J-1/2/09e157565462f8ce2221fba9d5a37162}, doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.006}, issn = {0749596X}, journal = {Journal of Memory and Language}, keywords = {wm, wmgrant}, month = {May}, number = {4}, pages = {541--553}, posted-at = {2009-09-30 17:32:43}, priority = {2}, title = {The nature of working memory capacity in sentence comprehension: Evidence against domain-specific working memory resources☆}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.006}, volume = {54}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1586074 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1586074 N2 - 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 ). IS - 4 JF - Journal of Memory and Language SN - 0749596X EP - 553 TI - The nature of working memory capacity in sentence comprehension: Evidence against domain-specific working memory resources☆ VL - 54 SP - 541 KW - wm KW - wmgrant AU - Fedorenko, E AU - Gibson, E AU - Rohde, D PY - 2006/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.006 ER -