The role of working memory (WM) in sentence comprehension has received considerable
interest, but little work has investigated how sentence production relies on memory …

This paper reports the results of a dual-task experiment which investigates the nature of
working memory resources used in sentence comprehension. Participants read sentences …

The concept of working memory (WM) was popularized in, if not introduced into,
contemporary cognitive psychology by Baddeley and Hitch (1974), who argued that a …

College students wrote definitions of either abstract or concrete nouns in longhand while
performing a concurrent working memory (WM) task. They detected either a verbal (syllable) …

Although research on the role of verbal working memory (WM) in language processing has
focused on phonological maintenance, considerable evidence indicates that the …

Meaningful sequences of words, such as sentences and passages of prose, are easier to
remember than sequences that lack syntactic and semantic structure. In this chapter we …

A series of experiments explored whether chunking in short-term memory for verbal
materials depends on attentionally limited executive processes. Secondary tasks were used …

In this article we outline a “sub-process view” of working memory capacity (WMC). This view
suggests that any relationship between WMC and another construct (eg, reading …

In order to study the role of working memory in sentence formulation, we elicited errors of
subject-verb agreement in spoken sentence completion, while speakers did or did not …

Planning a sentence with concrete concepts whose referents can be mentally imaged has
been shown in past work to require the limited resources of visual working memory. By …