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Problems with plausibility and alternatives to working memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Neal J. Pearlmutter
Neal J. Pearlmutter
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 [email protected] www.psych.neu.edu/vita/pearlmutter.html
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Abstract

Caplan & Waters propose a dedicated linguistic working memory to handle “interpretive” language comprehension, but there are data suggesting that more general working memory capacity can predict syntactic comprehension difficulty, and their claims depend on the existence of a principled distinction between “interpretive” and “post-interpretive” processes, which seems unlikely. Other conceptions of the source of individual differences also deserve consideration, as more flexible explanations of the phenomena.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 109
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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