The role of working memory loads on immediate and long-term sentence recall
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21602120 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theresa Pham (0000-0002-3368-8767, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, corresponding author), Lisa M D Archibald (0000-0002-2478-7544, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-8211 • E-ISSN: 1464-0686 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09658211.2022.2122999 |
| PMID | 36107807 |
| OpenAlex | W4295898290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
It is well-established that both phonological and semantic knowledge influence verbal working memory. However, the focus has primarily been on understanding phonological effects despite evidence of semantic influences. Articulatory suppression is a well-established task for preventing phonological processing. Methods to prevent semantic processing have rarely been used in the past, highlighting a need for developing a semantic interference task. We, therefore, conceptualised two novel tasks - an animacy categorisation and semantic relatedness judgement task. This study explored the impact of phonological (articulatory suppression) and semantic loads (animacy categorisation and semantic relatedness judgement) on immediate and delayed sentence recall. Additionally, sentence concreteness (concrete vs. abstract sentences) indexed semantic knowledge in verbal working memory. Across two studies, immediate recall revealed that articulatory suppression (preventing phonological processing) increased the size of the concreteness effect, while the novel semantic tasks (preventing semantic processing) reduced it suggesting that our semantic tasks were indeed imposing a semantic load. Further, relative long-term performance showed that more new words were remembered in articulatory suppression, whereas recall was disproportionately impaired in the semantic relatedness task. Our experimental paradigm offers phonological and semantic suppression tasks that can be used in parallel to investigate the interactions between working memory and language
Animacy · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Concreteness · Free recall · Natural language processing · Recall · Semantic memory · Sentence · Sentence processing · Working memory · Computer Science · Memory Processes and Influences · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |