Working memory and binding in sentence recall

Baddeley, Alan; Hitch, Graham J.; Allen, Richard J.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.05.004

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“…Although attention is central to working memory, specific working-memory functions may be performed with little or no attentional processing. For example, integrating pieces of information to be maintained in working memory (i.e., "chunking") can be relatively unaffected by attention-demanding concurrent tasks (Baddeley et al 2009), and there are demonstrations of short-term maintenance of information made nonconscious by diverting attention from the target (Bergström and Eriksson 2014). The details of when and how attention is critical for working-memory processes should be further specified in future research.…”

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Working Memory: Maintenance, Updating, and the Realization of Intentions

Nyberg

Eriksson

2015

Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol

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Correspondence: lars.nyberg@umu.se "Working memory" refers to a vast set of mnemonic processes and associated brain networks, relates to basic intellectual abilities, and underlies many real-world functions. Workingmemory maintenance involves frontoparietal regions and distributed representational areas, and can be based on persistent activity in reentrant loops, synchronous oscillations, or changes in synaptic strength. Manipulation of content of working memory depends on the dorsofrontal cortex, and updating is realized by a frontostriatal '"gating" function. Goals and intentions are represented as cognitive and motivational contexts in the rostrofrontal cortex. Different working-memory networks are linked via associative reinforcement-learning mechanisms into a self-organizing system. Normal capacity variation, as well as workingmemory deficits, can largely be accounted for by the effectiveness and integrity of the basal ganglia and dopaminergic neurotransmission.

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Working Memory: Maintenance, Updating, and the Realization of Intentions

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Eriksson

2015

Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol

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“…The majority of studies of binding that have been used to develop the EB model have been based on tasks that explicitly require binding between pairs of features held in WM. For example, Allen, Baddeley, and Hitch (2006) required participants to remember the shape and color of a set of objects, and Baddeley et al (2009) reported evidence of binding between VWM and LTM. However, the model suggests that integrated bindings of some complexity should be possible; in this context, our identification of a binding between verbal, spatial, and visual semantic (LTM) features is informative.…”

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Visuospatial bootstrapping: Long-term memory representations are necessary for implicit binding of verbal and visuospatial working memory

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It has recently been shown that presenting additional visuospatial information alongside to-be-remembered numbers in a digit span task enhances participants' memory for those items. However, the mechanisms behind this visuospatial bootstrapping effect have remained unspecified. In this article, we report evidence that this effect involves an integration of information from verbal and visuospatial temporary memory with long-term-memory (LTM) representations and that the existence of a relevant LTM representation is necessary for bootstrapping to occur.

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“…In working memory, binding may actually include the automatic and unconscious processes of the parser (Baddeley, Hitch, & Allen, 2009), including the linking of pronouns or reflexives with their antecedents. Children with SLI have demonstrated deficits in suppressing irrelevant information, have less resistance to proactive inhibition, a higher rate of interference errors, and poorer coordination between activation and inhibition than their TD peers (Epstein, Hestvik, Shafer, & Schwartz, 2013;Marton, Campanelli, Eichorn, Scheuer, & Yoon, 2014).…”

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Processing Binding Relations in Specific Language Impairment

Schwartz

Hestvik

Seiger-Gardner

et al. 2016

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: This sentence processing experiment examined the abilities of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical language development (TD) to establish relations between pronouns or reflexives and their antecedents in real time. Method: Twenty-two children with SLI and 24 age-matched children with TD (7;3-10;11 [years;months]) participated in a cross-modal picture priming experiment to determine whether they selectively activated the correct referent at the pronoun or reflexive in sentences. Triplets of auditory sentences, identical except for the presence of a pronoun, a reflexive, or a noun phrase along with a picture probe were used.Results: The children with TD were slightly more accurate in their animacy judgments of pictures, but the groups exhibited the same reaction time (RT) pattern. Both groups were slower for sentences with pronouns than with reflexives or noun phrases. The children with SLI had longer RTs than their peers with TD. Conclusions: Children with SLI activated only the appropriate antecedent at the pronoun or reflexive, reflecting intact core knowledge of binding as was true for their TD peers. The overall slower RT for children with SLI suggests that any deficit may be the result of processing deficits, perhaps attributable to interference effects.

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Working memory and binding in sentence recall

Cited by 246 publications

References 47 publications

Working Memory: Maintenance, Updating, and the Realization of Intentions

Working Memory: Maintenance, Updating, and the Realization of Intentions

Visuospatial bootstrapping: Long-term memory representations are necessary for implicit binding of verbal and visuospatial working memory

Processing Binding Relations in Specific Language Impairment

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