Semantic and syntactic interference in sentence comprehension and their relationship to working memory capactiy

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dc.contributor.advisorMartin, Randi C.en_US
dc.creatorTan, Yingyingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-08T00:39:31Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-03-08T00:39:31Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated the nature of the relationship between working memory (WM) and sentence processing by examining interference effects in sentence comprehension and relating those to performance on a set of WM tasks, executive function tasks, and vocabulary tests. For online sentence comprehension, semantic interference effects were negatively correlated with semantic retention capacity. Syntactic interference effects were negatively related only to reading span. These results are consistent with the multiple capacities account (Martin & Romani, 1994), which postulates that there are separable retention abilities for semantic, syntactic, and phonological information, with the first two being critical for sentence comprehension. For offline sentence comprehension, participants with better semantic STM, WM span, vocabulary, or Stroop performance showed less difficulty in semantic interference resolution. These results were consistent to some extent with multiple capacities account, the general resources account (Just & Carpenter, 1992) and retrieval-based interference account (Van Dyke, 2007). Keywords: Interference effect, Working memory capacity, Cue-based retrieval, Sentence processingen_US
dc.format.extent124 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS PSYCH. 2012 TANen_US
dc.identifier.citationTan, Yingying. "Semantic and syntactic interference in sentence comprehension and their relationship to working memory capactiy." (2012) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70467">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70467</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalTanYen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/70467en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectCognitive psychologyen_US
dc.titleSemantic and syntactic interference in sentence comprehension and their relationship to working memory capactiyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentPsychologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US
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