The consequences of reduced memory span for the comprehension of semantic versus syntactic information.

Abstract:

:Aphasic patients with restricted memory spans were assessed on their comprehension of syntactically simple sentences varying in numbers of content words and on their comprehension of sentences matched in content words but varying in syntactic complexity. Three different presentation modes were used: unlimited visual presentation, limited visual presentation, and auditory presentation. The difference between performance in the unlimited and limited modes was used as a measure of the extent to which memory decrements caused comprehension failure. These difference scores were related to memory span in order to assess whether the memory involved in sentence processing overlaps that assessed by a memory span task. For the sentences varying in number of content words, performance was worse for the limited presentation modes than the unlimited mode, and the difference between unlimited and limited presentation modes was highly related to memory span. For the sentences varying in syntactic complexity, there was no clear reduction in performance for limited presentation modes, and the difference scores did not relate to memory span. The results support the view that the processing of sentences with many content words draws on the short-term memory capacity assessed by memory span, while the processing of syntactic complexity does not.

journal_name

Brain Lang

journal_title

Brain and language

authors

Martin RC,Feher E

doi

10.1016/0093-934x(90)90099-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1-20

issue

1

eissn

0093-934X

issn

1090-2155

pii

0093-934X(90)90099-3

journal_volume

38

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