Gordon Peter C, Hendrick Randall, Johnson Marcus, Lee Yoonhyoung
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, USA.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2006 Nov;32(6):1304-21. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1304.
The nature of working memory operation during complex sentence comprehension was studied by means of eye-tracking methodology. Readers had difficulty when the syntax of a sentence required them to hold 2 similar noun phrases (NPs) in working memory before syntactically and semantically integrating either of the NPs with a verb. In sentence structures that placed these NPs at the same linear distances from one another but allowed integration with a verb for 1 of the NPs, the comprehension difficulty was not seen. These results are interpreted as indicating that similarity-based interference occurs online during the comprehension of complex sentences and that the degree of memory accessibility conventionally associated with different types of NPs does not have a strong effect on sentence processing.
通过眼动追踪方法研究了复杂句子理解过程中工作记忆操作的性质。当句子的句法要求读者在将任何一个名词短语与动词进行句法和语义整合之前,在工作记忆中保留两个相似的名词短语(NP)时,读者会遇到困难。在将这些名词短语放置在彼此相同线性距离但允许其中一个名词短语与动词整合的句子结构中,并未发现理解困难。这些结果被解释为表明在复杂句子理解过程中会在线发生基于相似性的干扰,并且传统上与不同类型名词短语相关的记忆可及性程度对句子处理没有强烈影响。