The relationship between age, verbal working memory, and language comprehension
The relationship between age, verbal working memory, and language comprehension
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DOI：
10.1037/0882-7974.19.4.601
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Waters, G
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作者：
DeDe, G;Caplan, D;Waters, G
使用结构建模方法来检查年龄，口头工作记忆（VWM）和3种类型的语言度量之间的关系：在线句法处理，句子理解和文本理解。在线处理措施的最佳合适模型显示，年龄对在线句子处理产生了直接影响，但没有通过VWM介导的效果。句子和文本理解的最佳拟合模型包括通过VWM介导的年龄的效果，没有年龄的直接影响。这些结果表明，年龄，VWM和理解之间的关系取决于语言处理的量度，并支持以下观点：VWM中的个体差异不会影响个人的在线句法处理。
A structural modeling approach was used to examine the relationships between age, verbal working memory (vWM), and 3 types of language measures: online syntactic processing, sentence comprehension, and text comprehension. The best-fit model for the online-processing measure revealed a direct effect of age on online sentence processing, but no effect mediated through vWM. The best-fit models for sentence and text comprehension included an effect of age mediated through vWM and no direct effect of age. These results indicate that the relationship among age, vWM, and comprehension differs depending on the measure of language processing and support the view that individual differences in vWM do not affect individuals' online syntactic processing.