Parsing and Working Memory in Bilingual Sentence Processing

Working Memory Load in Sentence Parsing

This thesis presents a computational model of working memory load in human sentence processing that attempts to explain a number of well-established linguistic performance effects that are associated with processing difficulty of certain syntactic structures. The computational model presented here is based on recent assumptions of working memory in computational cognitive modeling. In particula...

Sentence Processing in a Vectorial Model of Working Memory

This paper presents a vectorial incremental parsing model defined using independently posited operations over activationbased working memory and weight-based episodic memory. This model has the attractive property that it hypothesizes only one unary preterminal rule application and only one binary branching rule application per time step, which allows it to be smoothly integrated into a vector-...

Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension: Processing Hindi Center Embeddings

Modeling Concept Activation in Working Memory during Online Sentence Processing

There have been several computational alternatives to the cloze task (Taylor, 1953) intended to approximate word predictability effects on eye movements during reading. In this study, we implement a computational model that instantiates each content word in a sentence as an input that activates semantic concepts in working memory. The predictability of a word is then determined by the extent to...

Working memory and binding in sentence recall

0749-596X/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.05.004 * Corresponding author. Fax: +44 (0)1904 433181 E-mail address: [email protected] (G.J. Hitch). A series of experiments explored whether chunking in short-termmemory for verbal materials depends on attentionally limited executive processes. Secondary tasks were used to disrupt components of working memory and chunking wa...