Working Memory Effects in Sentence Comprehension

描述(由申请人提供)：建议研究的具体目的 是确定工作记忆容量的个体差异如何影响 句子理解。目前的一些理论认为，认知 句子翻译的过程是模块化的。其他理论 假设语言处理体系结构是高度交互的。 根据后一种说法，句子的解释可能会受到影响 受许多因素的影响，包括工作记忆的限制。个体 因此，句子口译策略的差异更符合 后一类账户比前一类账户更多。确定工作方式和原因 记忆限制影响句子理解有助于区分 在以下基础上发展起来的句子解释的说明 规范性数据。言语工作记忆能力的测量倾向于相互关联 阅读理解技能和学业指数的测量 成绩，如SAT的口头成绩。因此，低容量的样品 参与者中将有相当数量的人落后于 阅读理解和学业成就上的同龄人。实验中的实验 目前的提案将有助于确定低容量理解者的策略 采用处理和理解句子的方法。这些知识可能会带来洞察力 这将帮助从业者设计出更好的干预方法 成绩不佳的人群。

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.