Working Memory Effects in Sentence Comprehension

工作记忆对句子理解的影响

• 批准号: 6760955
• 负责人: Matthew J Traxler
• 金额: $ 9.56万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-04-01 至 2006-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6760955
• 关键词: academic achievement; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; comprehension; eye movements; human subject; language; neural information processing; psychoanalysis; reading; short term memory

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aim of the proposed research is to determine how individual differences in working-memory capacity affect sentence understanding. Some current theories assume that the cognitive processes involved in sentence interpretation are modular. Other theories assume that the language processing architecture is highly interactive. According to these latter accounts, sentence interpretation can be influenced by any number of factors, including working memory restrictions. Individual differences in sentence-interpretation strategies are thus more compatible with the latter class of account than the former. Identifying how and why working memory limitations affect sentence understanding helps distinguish between accounts of sentence-interpretation that have been developed on the basis of normative data. Measures of verbal-working-memory capacity tend to correlate with measures of reading comprehension skill and indices of academic achievement, such as verbal SAT scores. Hence, samples of low-capacity participants will contain substantial numbers of people who lag behind their peers in reading comprehension and academic achievement. The experiments in the current proposal will help determine what strategies low-capacity comprehenders adopt to process and comprehend sentences. This knowledge may lead to insights that will help practitioners devise better ways of intervening with under-achieving populations.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的具体目标 是为了确定工作记忆容量的个体差异如何影响 句子理解。当前的一些理论假设认知 句子解释所涉及的过程是模块化的。其他理论 假设语言处理架构是高度交互的。 根据后面的叙述，句子的解释会受到影响 受多种因素影响，包括工作记忆限制。个人 因此，句子解释策略的差异更能兼容 后一类帐户比前一类帐户要多。确定工作方式和原因 记忆限制影响句子理解有助于区分 句子解释的叙述是在以下基础上发展起来的 规范数据。言语工作记忆能力的测量往往具有相关性 衡量阅读理解能力和学业指数 成绩，例如 SAT 口头成绩。因此，低容量样本 参与者将包含大量落后于他们水平的人 在阅读理解和学术成就方面与同龄人相媲美。实验在 当前的提案将有助于确定低能力理解者采取什么策略 采用处理和理解句子。这些知识可能会带来见解 这将有助于从业者设计出更好的干预方法 成绩不佳的人群。

项目成果

Discourse Impairments Following Right Hemisphere Brain Damage: A Critical Review.

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00094.x
• 发表时间: 2008-11
• 期刊: Language and linguistics compass
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Johns CL;Tooley KM;Traxler MJ
• 通讯作者: Traxler MJ

Working memory contributions to relative clause attachment processing: a hierarchical linear modeling analysis.

工作记忆对关系从句附件处理的贡献：分层线性建模分析。

• DOI: 10.3758/bf03193482
• 发表时间: 2007
• 期刊: Memory & cognition
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Traxler,MatthewJ

Individual Differences in Eye-Movements During Reading: Working Memory and Speed-of-Processing Effects.

阅读过程中眼球运动的个体差异：工作记忆和处理速度的影响。

• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: Journal of eye movement research
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Traxler,MatthewJ;Long,DebraL;Tooley,KristenM;Johns,ClintonL;Zirnstein,Megan;Jonathan,Eunike
• 通讯作者: Jonathan,Eunike