How WM Load Influences Linguistic Processing in Adults: A Computational Model of Pronoun Interpretation in Discourse
How WM Load Influences Linguistic Processing in Adults: A Computational Model of Pronoun Interpretation in Discourse
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WM 负载如何影响成人的语言处理:话语中代词解释的计算模型
DOI:
10.1111/tops.12029
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
P. Hendriks
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文献类型:
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作者:
J. V. Rij;H. Rijn;P. Hendriks
This paper presents a study of the effect of working memory load on the interpretation of pronouns in different discourse contexts: stories with and without a topic shift. We discuss a computational model (in ACT-R, Anderson, 2007) to explain how referring expressions are acquired and used. On the basis of simulations of this model, it is predicted that WM constraints only affect adults' pronoun resolution in stories with a topic shift, but not in stories without a topic shift. This latter prediction was tested in an experiment. The results of this experiment confirm that WM load reduces adults' sensitivity to discourse cues signaling a topic shift, thus influencing their interpretation of subsequent pronouns.
影响因子:
7.8
作者:
Maffei, Giovanni;Santos-Pata, Diogo;Verschure, Paul F. M. J.
通讯作者:
Verschure, Paul F. M. J.