Verbal Working Memory as Emergent from Language Comprehension and Production
Verbal Working Memory as Emergent from Language Comprehension and Production
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DOI：
10.3389/fnhum.2020.00068
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发表时间：
2020-03-12
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
MacDonald, Maryellen C.
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作者：
Schwering, Steven C.;MacDonald, Maryellen C.
本文回顾了目前语言工作记忆的模型，并考虑了语言理解和长期记忆在短期内维持和整理语言信息的能力中的作用。虽然所有的言语工作记忆模型都假定与长期记忆有某种相互作用，但很少有人考虑到这些长期表征的特征或它们如何影响言语工作记忆任务的表现。同样，很少有模型考虑理解过程和生产过程如何影响言语工作记忆任务的表现。现代理解理论强调，人们学习的是一个巨大的关于语言和世界的相关信息网络，必须激活长期记忆中的信息来应对语言输入的需求。迄今为止，语言工作记忆理论中很少考虑这种来自理解的丰富输入如何影响临时记忆的性质。相对而言，很少有人关注语言生产过程自然管理语言信息序列顺序的程度。作者主张一种由丰富的、分布的语言长期记忆支持的语言工作记忆的涌现模型。根据这一观点，理解过程在言语工作记忆任务、生产过程维护、序列排序和回忆中提供编码。此外，维护和排序信息的计算能力随语言经验而变化。考虑了工作记忆、理解和生产理论的含义。
This article reviews current models of verbal working memory and considers the role of language comprehension and long-term memory in the ability to maintain and order verbal information for short periods of time. While all models of verbal working memory posit some interaction with long-term memory, few have considered the character of these long-term representations or how they might affect performance on verbal working memory tasks. Similarly, few models have considered how comprehension processes and production processes might affect performance in verbal working memory tasks. Modern theories of comprehension emphasize that people learn a vast web of correlated information about the language and the world and must activate that information from long-term memory to cope with the demands of language input. To date, there has been little consideration in theories of verbal working memory for how this rich input from comprehension would affect the nature of temporary memory. There has also been relatively little attention to the degree to which language production processes naturally manage serial order of verbal information. The authors argue for an emergent model of verbal working memory supported by a rich, distributed long-term memory for language. On this view, comprehension processes provide encoding in verbal working memory tasks, and production processes maintenance, serial ordering, and recall. Moreover, the computational capacity to maintain and order information varies with language experience. Implications for theories of working memory, comprehension, and production are considered.