Sequential syntactic knowledge supports item but not order recall in verbal working memory.

Autor: Querella P; Department of Psychology, Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, University of Liège, Place des Orateurs 1 (B33), 4000, Liège, Belgium. pquerella@uliege.be., Majerus S; Department of Psychology, Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, University of Liège, Place des Orateurs 1 (B33), 4000, Liège, Belgium.; National Fund for Scientific Research, Brussels, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Memory & cognition [Mem Cognit] 2024 Nov; Vol. 52 (8), pp. 1737-1761. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 23.
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-023-01476-6
Abstrakt: Previous studies have shown that psycholinguistic effects such as lexico-semantic knowledge effects mainly determine item recall in verbal working memory (WM). However, we may expect that syntactic knowledge, involving knowledge about word-level sequential aspects of language, should also impact serial-order aspects of recall in WM. Evidence for this assumption is scarce and inconsistent and has been conducted in language with deterministic syntactic rules. In languages such as French, word position is determined in a probabilistic manner: an adjective is placed before or after a noun, depending on its lexico-semantic properties. We exploited this specificity of the French language for examining the impact of syntactic positional knowledge on both item and serial order recall in verbal WM. We presented lists with adjective-noun pairs for immediate serial recall, the adjectives being in regular or irregular position relative to the nouns. We observed increased recall performance when adjectives occurred in regular position; this effect was observed for item recall but not order recall scores. We propose an integration of verbal WM and syntactic processing models to account for this finding by assuming that the impact of syntactic knowledge on serial-order WM recall is indirect and mediated via syntax-dependent item-retrieval processes.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Ethics approval: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Liège. Consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Conflicts of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest in connection with this work.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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