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Problems with plausibility and alternatives to working memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

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

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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.

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Open Peer Commentary
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press