Twisting tongues and memories: Explorations of the relationship between language production and verbal working memory

Acheson, Daniel J.; MacDonald, Maryellen C.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2008.12.002

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“…lexical level in the case of ISR for lists of familiar words) utterance plan designed to accomplish the reproduction of a recently encountered sequence of verbal items (Page et al 2007). Other recent data have been supportive of this characterization (Acheson & MacDonald 2009) and of the close links that this suggests between ISR and speech production (cf. Ellis 1980;Page & Norris 1998b).…”

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A model linking immediate serial recall, the Hebb repetition effect and the learning of phonological word forms

Page

Norris

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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We briefly review the considerable evidence for a common ordering mechanism underlying both immediate serial recall (ISR) tasks (e.g. digit span, non-word repetition) and the learning of phonological word forms. In addition, we discuss how recent work on the Hebb repetition effect is consistent with the idea that learning in this task is itself a laboratory analogue of the sequence-learning component of phonological word-form learning. In this light, we present a unifying modelling framework that seeks to account for ISR and Hebb repetition effects, while being extensible to word-form learning. Because word-form learning is performed in the service of later word recognition, our modelling framework also subsumes a mechanism for word recognition from continuous speech. Simulations of a computational implementation of the modelling framework are presented and are shown to be in accordance with data from the Hebb repetition paradigm.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A model linking immediate serial recall, the Hebb repetition effect and the learning of phonological word forms

Page

Norris

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

149

240

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“…For instance, in order to perform any short-term memory task, one must have the capacity to perceive words and to produce words. Similarly in language processing, memory for order is paramount as both processing and producing an utterance involves remembering the order of words in a sentence, and phonemes within a word (Acheson & MacDonald, 2009a). …”

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The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order

Clarkson

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Miller

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Memory

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Clarkson, Larissa, The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, 2013. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3841The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order A AbstractVerbal short-term memory and long-term memory were once thought to be distinct processes, with short-term memory responsible for the maintenance and manipulation of verbal information in the immediate consciousness, and long-term memory responsible for storage of words and associated information over the lifespan.However, more recent research has suggested that the processes are intrinsically linked. The ability to learn novel items suggests that short-term memory is able to contribute to long-term memory, and recent findings also indicate that long-term memory has an influence on short-term memory. Typically, long-term memory is thought to assist the recall of items from short-term memory through a late stage redintegration process but does not influence the serial ordering of items in memory.More recently, one long-term memory variable, phonological neighbourhood density has been shown to influence memory for order in an immediate serial recall task with lists containing both large and small phonological neighbourhood words. This result has implications for the locus of the link between long-term memory and short-term memory, and is indicative of a link occurring earlier than assumed by most models of short-term memory. The aim of this thesis was to replicate evidence that phonological neighbourhood density is a variable that is sensitive to order processing and to identify the conditions under which this sensitivity appears. In a series of experiments, the effect of phonological neighbourhood density on memory for order was examined using tasks that varied in their requirement to recall order information or item information. Memory for order was better for words from large neighbourhoods than from small neighbourhoods, for pure lists but not for mixed lists in a task that reduces the requirement to remember item information, namely serial reconstruction. Further experiments using this paradigm revealed that this result was not due to differences in word lengths between large and small stimuli sets nor due to differences in reaction time to the items at output, and could not be attributed to different processes underlying immediate serial recall and serial reconstruction. The difference in memory for order between large-and small-phonological neighbourhood lists was found to disappear under conditions of articulatory suppression, suggesting that sub-vocal articulation acts as an intermediary between long-term memory and short-term memory. Finally, a second long-term memory variable, word frequency, was examined and was also shown to influence memory for iii order. This is indicative of a general long-term memory effect on short-term memory for order that has not been identified previously in the literature. These results are disc...

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“…A number of proposed language-based models of STM have incorporated strong relationships between temporary storage systems and language long-term representations in order to account for the influence of language representations on STM capacities described hereinabove (e.g., Acheson, Hamidi, Binder, & Postle, 2011;Acheson & MacDonald, 2009a;2009b;Hickock, 2012;Majerus, 2009;2013;N. Martin & Saffran., 1992; N. ; R. Martin et al, 1999).…”

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Dissociable components of phonological and lexical–semantic short-term memory and their relation to impaired word production in aphasia

Verhaegen

Piertot

Poncelet

2013

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Twisting tongues and memories: Explorations of the relationship between language production and verbal working memory

Cited by 59 publications

References 60 publications

A model linking immediate serial recall, the Hebb repetition effect and the learning of phonological word forms

A model linking immediate serial recall, the Hebb repetition effect and the learning of phonological word forms

The phonological neighbourhood effect on short-term memory for order

Dissociable components of phonological and lexical–semantic short-term memory and their relation to impaired word production in aphasia

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