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20 - The Role of Working Memory in Language Comprehension and Production

Evidence from Neuropsychology

from Part IV - First Language Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2022

By
Rachel Zahn ,
Autumn Horne  and
Randi C. Martin
Edited by
John W. Schwieter  and
Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
John W. Schwieter
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
Affiliation:
Hong Kong Shue Yan University
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Summary

This chapter addresses the role of verbal working memory (WM) in language production and comprehension, focusing on data from brain-damaged individuals, while also drawing on related findings from healthy adults. The perspective on WM is the domain-specific model which includes WM buffers that are specific to phonological and semantic information and separate from long-term knowledge in these domains (Marti et al., 2020). Thus, the focus is on the separable contributions of these two buffers to language processes

Keywords

working memorydomain-specific working memoryphonological working memorysemantic working memorylanguage productionlanguage comprehensionneuropsychology
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The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language , pp. 435 - 458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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