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Fractionated working memory: Even in pebbles, it's still a soup stone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Morten H. Christiansen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 morten@siu.edu www.siu.edu/departments/cola/psycholfaculty/mhc.html
Maryellen C. MacDonald
Affiliation:
Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 mcm@gizmo.usc.edu siva.usc.edu/~mcm/

Abstract

We agree with Caplan & Waters that there are problems with the single-resource theory of sentence comprehension. However, we challenge their dual-resource alternative on theoretical and empirical grounds and point to a more coherent solution that abandons the notion of working memory resources.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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